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“The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.”
Source : Speech at the First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan, April 01, 2001.
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“The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.”
Source : James Joll (1978). “Antonio Gramsci”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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“The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.”
Source : " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.
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“Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.”
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“He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.”
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“The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.”
Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.10, Simon and Schuster
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“Now is the age of anxiety.”
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“I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.”