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• I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Religious, Civilization, Humanity

  "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Opinion, Global Warming

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Controversy”, p.56, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.

  James Elroy Flecker

  Art, Passion, Men

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• Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

  Mark Epstein

  Inspirational, Teacher, Mind

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.12, Penguin

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• The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Attitude, Successful

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us... to remain constantly in Your embrace, just as the whole of time remains in the embrace of eternity.

  Adrienne von Speyr

  Faith, Inspiration, Order

  Adrienne von Speyr (1995). “With God and with Men: Prayers”, p.22, Ignatius Press

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• Eternity is not an unending succession of days in the calendar, but something more like the supreme moment of satisfaction, in which totality embraces us and we embrace totality.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Calendars

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• My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

  Rumi

  Love, Teaching, Two

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• Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.

  Richard Branson

  Commitment, Successful, Imagination

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• That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sri Lanka, Hinduism, Eternal

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “Karmayogin”, p.16, editionNEXT.com

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• She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

  Jean M. Auel

  Horse, Hands, Special

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• Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Men, Simple

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• Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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• Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

  Lord Acton

  Children, Men, Greek

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their connections of blood, of friendship, and of acquaintance embrace a great proportion of the most influential part of the society . . . they are more immediately the confidential guardians of their rights and liberties.

  James Madison

  Blood, Rights, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.249, Coventry House Publishing

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• Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.

  David Packard

  Inspiring, Men, People

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• [Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

  James Madison

  Men, May, Property

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.478

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• Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.

  Confucius

  Character, Greatness, Men

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.27, Delphi Classics

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• She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Voice, Twenties

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• So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.

  Jackson Browne

  Writing, People, Example

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• Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.

  Paul Zollo

  Song, Memorable, Writing

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• Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Husband, Wife, Funny Marriage

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• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Hypothesis, Minimum

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