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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
 
There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
 
Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.
 
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.
 
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
 
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.
 
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.
 
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
 
It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.
 
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
 
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
 
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
 
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
 
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
 
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.
 
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
 
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
 
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
 
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.
 
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