"Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators."

-- Noam Chomsky

#Sports Quotes #Peace Quotes #Attitude Quotes

“Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.”
“The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth â€” Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.”

Source : "The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1914.
“I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.”
“I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.”
“I really do not aim at any originality.”
“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”
“Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.”
“Simplicity, very rare in our age.”

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