"The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb."

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Source : Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.197, Harper Collins

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“Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.”

Source : Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.30, Advaita Ashrama
“Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.”
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”

Source : Thomas Mann (1970). “Stories of a lifetime”
“I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother”
“Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.”
“Sometimes we succeed because of our upbringing, sometimes we do so in spite of it.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.162, Dell
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
“I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.”

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