"The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself."

-- Eckhart Tolle

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“They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think the politicians are going to yield to the emotions. I think the corporations are wrong about that. I think the companies will have to give in only at insignificant levels. Because the companies are too strong, they're the establishment. The environmentalists are going to have to be like the mob in the square in Romania before they prevail.”
“Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.”

Source : Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”
“Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent!”
“Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.”
“The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.”

Source : James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.5, Jazzybee Verlag
“How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.”
“President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.”
“An organism at war with itself is doomed.”

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