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8239 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
5865 E Kurt Lewin There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
Theory
Theory
2603 E Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy
Democracy
8339 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
8338 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
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Miscellaneous
11342 E Heinz von Foerster Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
Knowledge
Knowledge
7961 E Paul Broca The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
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Miscellaneous
8340 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
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Miscellaneous
13033 E Daniel Dennett Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Evolution
Evolution
6797 E Anonymous It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.
Attention
Attention
5600 E Luc de Vauvenargues There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
Fear
Fear
3435 E George Bernard Shaw Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Taste
Taste
8323 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
2887 E Voltaire If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Religion
Religion
2268 E Albert Camus Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Conformism
Conformism
3156 E Martin Luther King It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
Welfare
Welfare
6052 E Jean-Paul Sartre All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Reading
Reading
8230 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
16974 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Philosophy
Philosophy
2528 E Lyndon Johnson You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Law
Law