Quotes 601 till 620 of 770.
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The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
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There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
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