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Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."… — Swami Vivekananda
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach… — Swami Vivekananda
You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their… — Swami Vivekananda
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material… — Mother Teresa
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. — Joseph Weizenbaum
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a… — Tim O'Reilly
As we transition from one screen to multiscreens, Google has enormous opportunities to innovate and drive ever higher monetization. Just like Search in 2000. — Larry Page
Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many… — Larry Page
We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time.… — Larry Page
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long… — Larry Page
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,… — Henry David Thoreau
The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves… — Doris Grumbach
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect… — Dalai Lama
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. — Swami Paramananda
Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates… — Peter McWilliams
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.… — Dalai Lama
My suggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do. — Jim Rohn
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of… — George Eliot

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