"It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people"

-- Carlos Castaneda

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“It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.”
“It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.”

Source : Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.”
“One of the hardest questions I have been asked is How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps? I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.”

Source : "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo". "El Universal" Newspaper, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.
“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature.”

Source : Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2009). “The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul”, p.194, The Golden Sufi Center
“Behold, for years and generations, the way of God has been leveled by the cross and by death. How is this with thee, that thou seest the afflictions of the way as if they were out of the way? Doest not thou wish to follow the steps of the saints? Or doest thou wish to go a way which is especially for thee, without suffering? the way unto God is a daily cross. No one can ascend unto heaven with comfort, we know where the way of comfort leads.”
“Most Britons still lived and died without encountering anyone whose skin colour was different from their own. Slaves, in short, did not threaten, at least as far as the British at home were concerned. Bestowing freedom upon them seemed therefore purely an act of humanity and will, an achievement that would be to Great Britain's economic detriment, perhaps, but would have few other domestic consequences.”

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