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Rajneesh

Guru

An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full of love and full of music and full of poetry and full of dance that there are no limitations for it. Life is not hard. It is man's stupidity that makes it hard.

Art - Consciousness - Creativity - Intelligence - Limits - Man - Stupid

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Dependence - Difficulty

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Help - Notions

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down

Giving - Shelter - Warmth

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Rajneesh

Guru

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.

Help - Life

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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.

Giving - Problem - Solution - Threat - Violence

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Brian Tracy

Author, Public Speaker

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

Creativity - Goals

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader

The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.

Giving - Spirits - Spiritual - Vision

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

Help - Obligations

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

Giving

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Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Political leader

If you give your word, let the entire Universe fall before you, but let your word stand.

Communicate - Consciousness - Fall - Giving - Universe

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Animals - Creativity - Danger - Health - Kindness - Loss - Madness - Man

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H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

Animals - Help - Herding - Human - Mankind - Order - Reason - Saints - Worship

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Certainty - Chance - Dependence - Expectation - Future - Loss - Power - Time - Uncertainty

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Giving - Good - Inspiration - Philosophy

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

Giving - Knowledge

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

Actions - Difficulty - Exploration - Family - Friendship - Giving - Movement

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Jack London

Public Servant, Novelist, Author

The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.

Ability - Certainty - Creativity - Facts - Imagination - Impression - Limits - Man - Oddity - Significance - Temperature - Trouble - Universe

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John Steinbeck

Writer, War Correspondent

The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

Giving - Reading - Story

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Rajneesh

Guru

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.

Force - Meditation

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