"Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically."

-- Walpola Rahula

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“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

Source : Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80
“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
“There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.”
“There's a Hidden Valley ranch party in my mouth.”
“Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.”
“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”
“We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.”

Source : "20 Questions: Barbara Hershey". Playboy Interview, May 1987.

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