"Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Christian Quotes #Buddhist Quotes #Attitude Quotes

“We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.”
“Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The boundaries of "our universe" are not the boundaries of "the universe."”

Source : "Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything". Book by Ervin Laszlo, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2004.
“I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.”
“I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Donâ€™t let people interfere with you. Boot â€™em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”
“The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.”

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