“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
— Dalai Lama
Author: Dalai Lama
Category: happiness
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Putting women in military combat is the
No account of the Renaissance can be
“No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.”
— Walter Pater
Author: Walter Pater
Category: religion
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood
With the NDAA, his failure to close
Human nature is such that monogamy is
There was this mountain village in Russia
“There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.”
— Joni Mitchell
Author: Joni Mitchell
Category: music
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Republics are created by the virtue, public
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”
— Joseph Story
Author: Joseph Story
Category: intelligence
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