Walpola Rahula Quotes
As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.
Walpola Rahula
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
Madeleine L'Engle
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
Samuel Johnson
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
Octavia E. Butler
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The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
W. H. Auden
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
John Burroughs
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It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
Benito Mussolini
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Aldo Leopold
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I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.
Bonnie Bassler
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There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
Bill James
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Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
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As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.
Walpola Rahula