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MISQUOTATION IS, IN FACT, THE PRIDE AND PRIVILEGE OF THE LEARNED. A WIDELY- READ MAN NEVER QUOTES ACCURATELY, FOR THE RATHER OBVIOUS REASON THAT HE HAS READ TOO WIDELY.
HESKETH PEARSON_______________________________________________________
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone;
to refuse the good models, even those which
are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare
to love God without mediator or veil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
_______________________________________________________Herbert Spencera paraphrase of William Paley
“Do not believe in something because it is reported...Help yourself, accept as completely true only that which is praised by the wise and which you test for yourself and know to be good for yourself and others.” (Anguttara Nikaya 3.65)The Buddha
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Forgiveness, it seems, cannot be forced. When we are brave enough to open our hearts to ourselves, however, forgiveness will emerge.
Pema Chödrön, from "The Places That Scare You."_______________________________________________________
"I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity.
What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source.
I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous."
M.K. Gandhi_______________________________________________________
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
_______________________________________________________Horace Walpole(1717 - 1797) citing Jean Racine (1639 -1699)
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
M.K. Gandhi
