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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. — Ramakrishna
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. — Dogen
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the… — Terry Pratchett
Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as… — William S. Burroughs
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel. — Hippolyte Taine
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is… — Ben Hecht
A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions. — Aberjhani
The pavilion that seems to be hiding you from God may be fear of man rather than this desire to serve others. The Savior's only… — Henry B. Eyring
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need — Barbara Kingsolver
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little… — Swami Vivekananda
There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as… — Swami Vivekananda
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere… — Swami Vivekananda
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do… — William Shakespeare
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning — Bill Gates
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head. — Ivan Panin
There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas… — Daniel Inouye
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to… — Claude Debussy
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible… — Jean Genet
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane
You look at that Democratic debate, I had to laugh at what I saw Barack Obama do. I mean in one week he went from… — Mitt Romney
I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance. — Mike Huckabee
Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so… — Dave Barry
What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building… — Jim Stengel
It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and… — Robin Williams
If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment — Frank A. Clark

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