Will Durant Quotes
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
Chogyam Trungpa
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It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
John C. Danforth
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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.
Aristotle
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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.
Aristotle
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But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.
Ernest Hemingway
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Tell people - and they may forget...
show them - they may remember...
but involve them and they will understand.
Confucius
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc., there is no other way to overcome them except by practicing more diligently. You need to read Master's books and to listen to Master's tapes more often, meditate more, do Quan Yin more, put more effort into your practice and concentrate more on the path of practice. It is safe only when you are sheltered by the supreme power, no other way.
Ching Hai
