"And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India."

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Source : Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

Max Muller

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“When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger”

Source : Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 4 March 2009, Washington, D.C.
“I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.”
“Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.”

Source : Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.19, Indiana University Press
“I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.”
“Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.”

Source : Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.
“Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.”

Source : Mundus Novus (1503) (translation by G. T. Northup)
“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”
“Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.”

Source : "Mothers Teaching Children in the Home". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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