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Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

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I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

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It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

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Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

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Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

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A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

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It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

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He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

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