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Siddharth Astir

Siddharth Astir

God made the world round,

God made the world round, to teach us , its not always wrong to reach right where we started
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W. T. Ussery

W. T. Ussery

Stimulate the heart to love,

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.
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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Time is dead as long

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Theodor Herzl

Theodor Herzl

[The body is] a marvelous

[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!
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W. T. Ussery

W. T. Ussery

We are all in the

We are all in the hands of an omnipotent, omniscient, just and merciful God, and whatever may be the destiny of humanity (for real or woe), there will be a universal and eternal amen to all that God does.
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Osho

Osho

Be realistic: Plan for a

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Knee-jerk liberals and all the

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
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Graham Clarke

Graham Clarke

Los Angeles seems endlessly held

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.
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Maitri Upanishads

Maitri Upanishads

As the same fire assumes

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
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Osho

Osho

Nobody can teach you love.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.
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Peter Plagens

Peter Plagens

LA needs the cleansing of

LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune.
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Hawkeye and Trapper

Hawkeye and Trapper

Give me an incubator or

Give me an incubator or give me death!
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Osho

Osho

I have never been a

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.
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Maitri Upanishads

Maitri Upanishads

As one acts and conducts

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.
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Farnsworth Crowder

Farnsworth Crowder

In the South of California

In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.
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Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilance is the price

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Maitri Upanishads

Maitri Upanishads

Where there is joy there

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.
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Osho

Osho

I am the rich man's

I am the rich man's guru.
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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing more notable

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

On thinking about Hell, I

On thinking about Hell, I gather
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Maitri Upanishads

Maitri Upanishads

Let a man strive to

Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness.
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Kedar Joshi

Kedar Joshi

Truth may have been found

Truth may have been found but might never be known.
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Louis Adamic

Louis Adamic

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Eternity is not something that

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
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