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11 Quotations
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
By Albert Einstein
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To these debasers of the language, ...any politicos or pundits who tap into any level of popular anger (toward Barack Obama, liberals, the IRS, poor people, unions, gays, immigrants, Hollywood, community organizers, environmentalists et al.) get a peel-off "populist' label slapped onto their lapels -- even when their populist pose is funded by and operates as a front for one or another corporate interest. That's not populism, it's rank hucksterism -- disguising plutocrats as champions of the people.
By Jim Hightower
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It's almost as if our hawks are agents of al-Qaeda, so thoroughly do they pursue the al-Qaeda strategy of exhausting the American economy and stretching our armed forces to the breaking point.
By Tom Hayden
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Like everyone who talks of ethics all day long, one could not trust him half an hour with one's wife.
By Cyril Connolly
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If progressives always announce that they're willing to accept whatever minuscule benefits are tossed at them (on the ground that it's better than nothing) and unfailingly support Democratic initiatives (on the ground that the GOP is worse), then they will (and should) always be ignored when it comes time to negotiate; nobody takes seriously the demands of those who announce they'll go along with whatever the final outcome is.
By Glenn Greenwald
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach
the quality it should have.
By Leonardo DaVinci
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It's actually wonderful to see that you're nobody and that all the fear you've had all your life was in relation to this self you thought you had. You have one less thing to promote, protect, maintain, dress up, and present to the world.
By Larry Rosenberg
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
By Blaise Pascal
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You don't try to make liberation happen. That would be the action of me or mine, the self-conscious practitioner. Real meditation happens when the meditator ['s ego] dies. ... As the practice continues, there is such a surrender to the object that there's nothing outside the observation.
By Larry Rosenberg
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
By Bertrand Russell
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Working to make 'me' happy only causes pain. Working for the happiness of others brings joy.... Maintaining the illusion of a solid separate self is drudgery.
By Sakyong Mipham
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