"The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.”
“The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.”
“Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.”
“It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2006). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.35, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.”

Source : Matt Fitzgerald (2007). “Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, and Res ults”, p.57, Penguin
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.”
“You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.”
“Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.”

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