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Patriotism

"Patriotism is standing up for your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."


— Mark Twain


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Public vs. Private

"Scientific knowledge is public; spiritual search is individual. A discovery by Einstein can benefit even those who do not understand e=mc2. But the Noble Truths of the Buddha need to be realized - to be made real - by an individual by more and more direct perception."


— Ravi Ravindra


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Turning Point

"It is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends on the decision of this generation as to the relations between religion and science."


— Alfred North Whitehead


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Forgoing Sense & Reason

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."


— Galileo


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Seven Blunders

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle."


— Mahatma Gandhi


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Precious Day

Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.


— The 14th Dalai Lama


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Despair

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.


— Mahatma Gandhi


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True Life

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.


— Henry David Thoreau


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Parents And Teachers

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.


— Aristotle


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Leading Education

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.


— Lord Brougham


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