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If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced…
— Annie Besant
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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;…
— Annie Besant
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in…
— Annie Besant
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God…
— Annie Besant
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate…
— Annie Besant
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included...…
— Joseph Beuys
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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
— William Beveridge
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I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.
— Charlie Bewley
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for…
— Benazir Bhutto
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
— Jello Biafra
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I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way…
— Mayim Bialik
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his…
— Theodor Adorno
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
— Ambrose Bierce
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
— Ambrose Bierce
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