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• Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Inspire, Police, Atheism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.268, Princeton University Press

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• Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

  George Sterling

  Atheism, World, Littles

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• A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Destiny, Mastery, World

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• Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Self, Views, Law

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• Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mean, Gossip

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• Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, World, Dangerous

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• The best way to defend America in this world we live in is to stay on the offense.

  George W. Bush

  America, World, Way

  George W. Bush at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, World

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• Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• What a comfort is friendship in this world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Comfort, World

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• A person who seeks power usually goes into other dimensional planes to find it. Then they bring that power back into this world and they use it to enhance their life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Use, World, Gaining Power

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• If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Crazy, Buddhism, People

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• I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

  Lil Wayne

  Thinking, People, World

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich and Paris Hilton, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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• The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Atheism, World, Woe

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• It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Eye, Garden, Eden

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• Timeless awareness occurs to very few in this world, to step beyond the circle of fear. The body has created a magnificent arena of fear. We have developed ways of seeing life that exclude us from seeing life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Circles, World, Body

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• Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Dressing Up

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• The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more...I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Jobs, Years

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• The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Duty, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.197

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• I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sea, Heaven, World

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• There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Son, Feet

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.211, Open Road Media

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• A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Goes On, World, Pot

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.167, Faber & Faber

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• I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Giving, Important

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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