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• You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

  Anthony de Mello

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  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

  Molly Ivins

  Taxes, Offshore, Whole

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• In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Survival, Quality

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• The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, People, Decision

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• In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

  William C. Brown

  Alive, Firsts, Spirit

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• One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Self, Knowing God, Knows

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• Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love You, Love Is, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.171, Harmony

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• The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.

  Petra Kelly

  Spiritual, Heart, Profound

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

  Anatole France

  Beautiful, Errors, Justice

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Bats, World, Captains

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• The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Dimensions, Language

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• The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Sleep, Wish

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• Jesus has given me ample resources to meet the spiritual needs of others because He has given me Himself and He has give me His Word. But in order to meet the spiritual needs of the multitude, I have to spend hours alone with Him in the prayerful meditation of His Word so that my spiritual needs are met.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

  Wole Soyinka

  Party, Believe, Fighting

  "Criticism Starts at Home". Interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2004.

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• In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.

  Neil Clark Warren

  Feelings, Needs, Yearning

  Neil Clark Warren (1998). “Learning to Live with the Love of Your Life... and Loving It”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  Yolanda Adams

  Years, Albums, Great Things

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• It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Giving, Important, Debt

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• With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

  Noam Chomsky

  Enlightenment, Development, Libertarian

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.114, The New Press

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• In order to deal with the issues we're going to take a thoughtful, considered, intelligent approach to moving forward, we're going to do it with a great deal of consultation ... but to suggest you never change anything ever, ever, ever going forward I don't think is particularly responsible.

  Rachel Notley

  Change, Moving, Thoughtful

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• Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Rights, Guarantees That

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• You have to put your body on the line from time to time in order to make a statement or change a law.

  Paul Stookey

  Law, Body, Lines

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• In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

  Jesse Jackson

  Reality, Personality, Translate

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• I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Corporations, Has Beens

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