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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves… — U Thant
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with… — Robert Kennedy
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
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed,… — Dogen
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the… — Frederick William Robertson
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
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. — Winston Churchill
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the… — Nhat Hanh
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them. — Dalai Lama
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is… — George Wald
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. — Hermann Hesse
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
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
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.… — Walt Kelly
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher… — Edwin Markham
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot… — Alexander Hamilton
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. — P.D. James
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence. — Thomas Jefferson
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to… — Charles Darwin
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best… — Walter Lippmann

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