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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Explanation - Knowledge

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Rajneesh

Guru

But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is...the basic thing is not to create a relationship. Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don't destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is, uninterfered with.

Dominating - Imagination - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Relationship - Support

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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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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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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

Oneself - Spiritual - Transformation - World

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Encouragement - Family - Friendship - Happiness - Insight - Inspiration - Love - Motivation - Reality

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Inspiration - Man - Rich

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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Inspiration - Key - Oneself

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William Wordsworth

Poet

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Actions - Good

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong

Inspiration - Motivation

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Harper Lee

Novelist

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Adulthood - Death - Good - Linguistics - Production

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Laozi

Philosopher

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Spiritual

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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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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

Accept - Effort - Inspiration - Life - People - Remembering

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Belief - Identity - Spiritual

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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

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

Mother - Motivation

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