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• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

  Jim Wallis

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Ego, Desire

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• The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

  Albert Einstein

  Struggle, Doe, Needs

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• It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

  George Wells Beadle

  Believe, Science, Self

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• The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Positive Thinking, Moments

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• I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Grace, Return

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• View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Running, Buddhist, Opportunity

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Enemy, Impossible

  Rinpoche Thubten Zopa (1994). “The Door to Satisfaction: The Heart Advice of a Tibetan Buddhist Master”, Wisdom Publications (MA)

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• All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Sex, Loss, Science

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• We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.

  PZ Myers

  Atheist, Lying, Successful

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• Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When a spouse dies, a companion will wonder. When financial hardship befalls a family, a father will ask. When children wander from the path, a mother and father will cry out in sorrow. Yes, 'weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' Then, in the dawn of our increased faith and understanding, we arise and choose to wait upon the Lord, saying, 'Thy will be done.'

  Robert D. Hales

  Mother, Morning, Art

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• Let me arise and open the gate,
  to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
  And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
  And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
  To let in Life, and to let out Death.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Firsts, Steps

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• The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, and there are no values, until men want to do both. If an anarchist wants only freedom, whatever the cost, he will prefer the jungle of man at war with man. And if a tyrant wants only social order, he will create the totalitarian state.

  Jacob Bronowski

  War, Animal, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Party, Believe, Men

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.29, Best Books on

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• So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Evil, Able

  NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1947). “THE PRINCE”

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• I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

  Ayn Rand

  Liberty, Cannibal

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.366, Hamilton Books

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• What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Believe, Differences

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
  in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
  By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
  we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.

  Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

  Real, Heart, Meditation

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• Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
  You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
  Your only job is to stay in your seat.
  You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

  Ajahn Chah

  Jobs, Doors, Visits You

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• The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Meditation, Realization, Body

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• The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  "Discourses on Livy". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 1, Ch. 37, (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Spring, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, People, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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