"Peace is only a thought away."

-- Jill Bolte Taylor

“For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.”
“Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.”

Source : Jean Kilbourne (1999). “Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising”
“Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil. When one does not profess Jesus Christ, one professes the worldliness of the devil.”
“AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”

Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (1960). “Best Games of Chess”, Dover Publications
“My impression is that the people who say most understand least.”
“It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.”
“We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact.”
“If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.”

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