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• The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Science, Curves, Wind

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• [N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Data, Ideas

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• I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Taken, Race

  "The Churchill you didn't know". To Palestine Royal Commission, 1937, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

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• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  Adam Clarke

  Heart, Faithful Servants, Honor

  Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.5

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• It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Trying, Hints

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Gold, Democracy, Action

  Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

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• The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Atheist, Practice, Support

  "On the Nature of the Gods". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

  Gertrude Stein

  Drunk, Sober, Being Sober

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• Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Energy, World

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• The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Rewards, Deeds, Good Deeds

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• It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Talent, Chemistry

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Thinking, East

  Journal (1867)

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• When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  War, Fighting, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Buddha says: Remember, you have to do much, but the ultimate always happens when you are not doing anything. It happens in a let-go. PRANIHAN IS the state of let-go. You do all that you can do; it will help, it will prepare the ground, but it cannot cause the truth to happen. When you have done everything that you can do, then relax, then nothing more is left.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Remember You, Remembers You

  "The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha".

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• Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two small, simple words 'let', 'go', define the very spirit of sannyas. Then one can say 'Let thy kingdom come, thy will be done.' Then one withdraws one's will, and the moment you withdraw your will your life becomes immensely rich. Suddenly the whole is with you, and we can be victorious only when the whole is with us.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Art, Mean

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• The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love is his message. Every gesture of his hand is pointing to the moon. And this whole thing is not being done, it is a happening. The master is not a doer. He has learned the greatest secret of life: let-go. The master has drowned his ego and the idea of separation from existence itself.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Real, Teaching

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• Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Opportunity, Energy

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• When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their masks, they have taken a tremendous step towards religiousness. So love, friendship, anything that helps you to drop the mask, is taking you towards religion. But the pseudo-religions have done just the opposite. They are against love. You can understand now, why they are against love: because love will destroy the personality, and the pseudo-religion depends on your personality.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Taken, Opposites

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• Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Way, Remember

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• All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

  Arnold Bennett

  Funny, Mistake, Belief

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Human Machine: Human Understanding”, p.44, 谷月社

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• I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

  Nicholas Lea

  Careers, Looks, Proud

  Biography\Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know that others have done the same to us. Stop doing it to yourself and stop doing it to others. Become alert. Just be real. I emphasize reality more than truth. Because truth has been used by the anti-life people so much, it has wrong associations. Be real. If you are real, one thing will start disappearing from your heart, and that is guilt.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Real, Heart

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• Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this has been done. This is the greatest crime that parents have always committed against children. They go on forcing the child.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Parent, Dying

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• You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Men, Broken

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people - people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of - and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will slip out of your hand, and that will be an act of awareness. And you will feel tremendously blissful that it happened; even if you are being shot your death will be a glory, a peace, an adventure, a journey into a new world.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Children, War

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