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“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
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“It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.”
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“Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.”
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“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”
Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.”
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“The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.”
Source : Dainin Katagiri (2000). “You Have to Say Something”, p.93, Shambhala Publications
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“Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.”
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“Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world”
