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Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain… — Hsuan Hua
The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in… — J. G. Holland
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape… — N. Scott Momaday
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them… — Marguerite Duras
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I… — Michel de Montaigne
I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the… — George Washington
My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without… — Whoopi Goldberg
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster… — Octavio Paz
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of… — Harold S. Kushner
The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every… — Tom Wujec
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future. — Sydney J. Harris
Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter. — Benjamin Disraeli
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. — Seneca the Younger
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good. — Confucius
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself. — Elvis Presley
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… — Hannah Arendt
One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average. — J. Michael Bailey
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the… — James Madison

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