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“Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?”
Source : Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.28, Haymarket Books
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“When we are at home with ourselves, we are at home everywhere in the world. When we have found peace within ourselves, peace and love follow us wherever we go.”
Source : Eknath Easwaran (1979). “The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Vol I”, p.144, Nilgiri Press
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“Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking--being awake--consciousness.”
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“Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.”
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“Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?”
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“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”
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“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.18, Penguin UK
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“When I saw Paul Scofield do Loves Labors Lost at Stratford, thats when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, This is what I want to do.”
