Ashoka Quotes
He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.
Quotes to Explore
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
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Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.
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In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
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Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
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It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
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I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.
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A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
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I am out of humanity's reach.
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I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.
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It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.
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I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.
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It turns out chimps have the same genetic sequence as that family with the speech deficit.
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I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.
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He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.
