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That which is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellow.
That is the whole Torah;
the rest is the explanation.
- Talmud (Jewish Wisdom)

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Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin

All other things being equal,
the simplest explanation is the most likely.
- a statement of Occam's Razor

On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin

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The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley

We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin

A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain

The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung

Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill

A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi


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