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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Devil - Discovery - Fools - Neighbor

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Actions - Choice - Force - Judging - Man - Novel - People - Philosophy - Thinking - Wants

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

Balance - Evolution - Force - Order - Quality - Spiritual - Together

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

Economy - Eternity - Growing - Mythology - Nonsense - Progression - Stability

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Norman Vincent Peale

Clergyman, Author

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

Average - Confidence - Trouble

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Benito Mussolini

Former Prime Minister of Italy

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

Actions - Countries - Economy - Education - Fascism - Feelings - Meaning - Politics - State

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from the oppression of the majority. ... The citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state.

Activity - Choice - Citizenry - Democracy - Economy - Effort - Machine - Majority - Oppression - Resistance - State - Thinking - Violence

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Economy - Oneself - Work

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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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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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Rajneesh

Guru

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

Discovery - Original - Spiritual

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Harry S. Truman

33rd U.S. President

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Economy - Injustice - War

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

Despair - Force - Labor - Misery - Movement - Progression - Unions

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

Breathing - Consciousness - Force - Key - Mindset - Thinking - Transformation

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

Accident - Advantage - Fools - Man - Misfortune - Prejudice - Wisdom

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Laozi

Philosopher

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Attachment - Enlightenment - Fishing - Goodbye - Trial - Winning - World

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Vincent Van Gogh

Businessman, Artist, Painter

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Meaning - Risk - Trouble

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Rene Descartes

Writer, Mathematician, Philosopher

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

Availability - Discovery - Statistics

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Jack London

Public Servant, Novelist, Author

I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

Compromise - Deal - Normal - Philosophy - Saints - Spirits - Trouble

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Compete - Decision - Survival - Winning

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