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Enlightenment should be a human right.

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• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Stop

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Live
  • Age
  • Innocence

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Nature

• They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • People
  • Credit
  • Sheep

• Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Air

• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  

  Karl Marx
  • Good
  • Petty

• It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • World

• In my sights I carve himlike a sculptor. I mold outhis last look at everyone.I carry his eyes and hisbrain bone at every position.I know his male sex and I domarch over him with my index finger.His mouth and his anus are one.I am at the center of feeling.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Sex

• Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Good

• Giving blood, or being near a needle, is the absolute worst.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Giving

• At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Up

• The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Pretty
  • Son
  • King

• It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

  

  Trisha Goddard
  • Wedding
  • Keep Up
  • Facade

• Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Innovation
  • Tolerance
  • Enlightenment

• Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • Age
  • Law
  • Enlightenment

• No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • True
  • Suffering
  • Search

• I think real enlightenment is total sanity, a kind of acceptance of what actually is. It does involve a kind of different way of looking at things. As I've done this Zen practice for years and years, I've acquired what I realize is an almost upside down view of life compared to what most people think, which is just what I used to think it was too. It's not really an insane view, at least I hope it's not.

  

  Brad Warner
  • View
  • Enlightenment
  • Zen

• Enlightenment should be a human right.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Enlightenment