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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to… — Wendell Berry
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. — John Berryman
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of… — Annie Besant
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. — Annie Besant
Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad,… — Annie Besant
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and… — Annie Besant
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. — Annie Besant
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It… — Mortimer Adler
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home. — Annie Besant
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts… — Mortimer Adler
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths. — Annie Besant
I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches… — Annie Besant
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical… — Annie Besant
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or… — Mortimer Adler
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows… — Annie Besant
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die… — Annie Besant
Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which… — Annie Besant
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so… — Annie Besant
As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is… — Annie Besant
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its… — Annie Besant

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