"A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality."

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Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.480

William Winwood Reade

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“(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.”
“I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.”
“I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.”
“I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.”
“I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.”
“I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!”

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“Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.”
“I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.”

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