"When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy."

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Source : Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

Victor Cousin

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“Good people need room to develop. They have to find their own voice . . . each IBMer is a businessperson working within the framework of the company structure.”
“All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.”

Source : "American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and Addresses".
“Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.”
“I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.”
“When five up express, as is polite, regret at laying a stymie, but rejoice in your heart.”
“If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail”
“Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,”

Source : "Rove's Take: Gen. Clark-McCain-Obama Triangle". "On the Record" with Greta Van Sustern, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2008.
“The love of a family is life's greatest blessing”

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