"When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes……" — Henry Hazlitt

"When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government."

— Henry Hazlitt

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There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that… — Billy Graham
Wherever desire exists ego exists, and wherever ego exists illusion exists because ego is the greatest illusion there is. Even… — Rajneesh
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