C. S. Lewis: One of the most cowardly things ordinary people...

Quote	One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. Copy
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Quote: When it comes to all we’re required to go through, we’re equals. No one is more vulnerable than the next man, and no one can be more sure of his surviving to the morrow.
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Marcus Aurelius
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When it comes to...

Quote: Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Oscar Wilde
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Man is a rational...

Quote: If there is a God, he is within. You don’t ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
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Author:
Bruce Lee
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If there is a...

Quote: Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Voltaire
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Men hate the individual...

Quote: Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Nothing is impossible for...

Quote: Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
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Sun Tzu
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Rouse him, and learn...

Quote: There are times when even to live is an act of bravery.
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Marcus Aurelius
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There are times when...

Quote: In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
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Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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In my view of...

Quote: I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
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Rumi
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I know you're tired...

Quote: A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
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Malcolm X
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A new world order...

Quote: You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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Rumi
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You have to keep...

Quote: Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
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Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trust instinct to the...

Quote: Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
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George Orwell
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Every record has been...

Quote: The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Voltaire
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The flowery style is...

Quote: The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.
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Rumi
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The whole universe is...

Quote: Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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Malcolm X
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Anytime you find someone...

Quote: The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.
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Albert Einstein
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The true value of...

Quote: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Author:
Edgar Allan Poe
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If you wish to...

Quote: When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?
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C. S. Lewis
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When the time comes...

Quote: No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
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No better way is...

Quote: In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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Author:
George Orwell
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In the face of...

Quote: Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
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George Carlin
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He - and if...

Quote: People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.
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Author:
Mother Teresa
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People are generally irrational,...

Quote: I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Maya Angelou
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I've learned that people...

Quote: My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.
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Buddha
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