"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it"

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Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

Henry Mayhew

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“All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.”

Source : Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications
“Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.”
“I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.”
“Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.”
“Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2014). “Exodus: A Memoir”, p.75, Penguin
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
“The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.”
“Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.”

Source : "Rush's soap washes away subtleties of James Hunt and Niki Lauda" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2013.

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