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168Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Vedavyas
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. -
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Experience teaches only the teachable. -
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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. -
120There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. Vedavyas
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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. -
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Every man's memory is his private literature. -
162Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Vedavyas
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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible... -
174Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Vedavyas
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to... -
146Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Vedavyas
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. -
144All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Vedavyas
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. -
138A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Vedavyas
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. -
160The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. Vedavyas
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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. -
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. -
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. -
192If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. Vedavyas
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. -
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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. -
172Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Vedavyas
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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. -
185One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Vedavyas
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more,... -
152Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. Vedavyas
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. -
167Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. Vedavyas
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. -
161You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. Vedavyas
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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.