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Related Topic(s): Darkness; Decay; Decline; Despair; Disease; Dying; Emergency; Existential; Prison; Rain; Storms; Suffering
Related Topic(s): Darkness; God; Hope Hopefulness; LIght; Liberty; Morning
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O star of morning and of liberty!
O bringer of the light, whose splendor shines
Above the darkness of the Apennines,
Forerunner of the day that is to be!
The voices of the city and the sea,
The voices of the mountains and the pines,
Repeat thy song, till the familiar lines
Are footpaths for the thought of Italy!
Thy flame is blown abroad from all the heights,
Through all the nations, and a sound is heard,
As of a mighty wind, and men devout,
Stra...
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Dante Alighieri
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Durante degli Alighieri (May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta) or just il Poeta. Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language". The first biography written on him was by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), who wrote the Trattatello in laude di Dante.[citation needed]
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Related Topic(s): Adversity; Beauty; Darkness; Inner; LIght; Loss; Pain; Trouble
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
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Related Topic(s): Courage; Creativity; Darkness; FEAR; Talent; Unknown
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that "talent" to the dark place where it leads.
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Related Topic(s): Challenge; Emptiness; Salvation; WORK
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Related Topic(s): Beauty; Emptiness
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Last night I looked inward and the beauty of my own emptiness filled me till dawn. It enveloped me like a mine of rubies.
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Related Topic(s): Answers; Awakening; Boundaries; DISCOVERY; Emptiness; Opening; Openness; Question
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Lift your foot. Cross over. Move into the emptiness of question and answer and question
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Related Topic(s): Atheism; Nothingness
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Nothing is given to Man.
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Related Topic(s): Nothingness
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We don't see things as THEY are, we see things as WE are.
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Research useless. |
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Related Topic(s): Avoiding; Breathing; Ethics; Nothingness; Spirituality; Thinking; United States; Words
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May i suggest for the new year avoiding all tittles such as liberals, rep, demo, progressives, races, color, educational idiots,etc. and come to a realistic confederation of humanistic individuals understanding and taking over this country and changing it to a better, healthier, educated, spiritual, hard working, united place to breath in. love and light." (Wisest words I've heard this morning.)
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Related Topic(s): Nothingness; Road
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Only a few arrive at nothing, because the road is long.
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Antonio Porchia was born in Italy in 1886 and died in Argentina in 1968. He lived in Buenos Aires from 1911 until his death, writing in Spanish and working as a potter and carpenter.
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Related Topic(s): Nothingness; Trees
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Email Footnote: No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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Related Topic(s): Encouragement; Evil; Good; Government; Men Women; Nothingness; Triumph
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All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. --- Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke PC (12 January 1729 - 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his opposition to the French Revolution. It led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro-French-Revolution "New Whigs" led by Charles James Fox. Burke lived before the terms "conservative" and "liberal" were used to describe political ideologies. Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the nineteenth-century and since the twentieth-century he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism. |
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Related Topic(s): Connection; Nothingness; Unity; Wholeness
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Hence all things being caused and causing, aided and aiding, mediate and immediate, and all inter-connected by a natural and imperceptible tie that unites the remotest and most diverse, I hold it impossible to know the parts without knowing the whole, any more than to know the whole without knowing the particular parts.
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Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France - August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted. |
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Related Topic(s): Nothingness
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Related Topic(s): Career; Knowing; Knowledge; Knowledge; Knowledge; Nothingness; Political; SELF KNOWLEDGE; Self-knowledge; Talking Points; Thinking; Unknown; VIEWPOINT
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Nobel Prize in Literature
1925
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
1938 Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856Â - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
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Related Topic(s): Career; Knowing; Knowledge; Nothingness; Political; SELF KNOWLEDGE; Self-knowledge; Talking Points; Thinking; Unknown; VIEWPOINT
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Nobel Prize in Literature
1925
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
1938 Pygmalion
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856Â - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. He was also an essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems with a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
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Related Topic(s): Anxiety; Existential; Meditation; Quiet; Silence
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.
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Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France - August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted. |
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Related Topic(s): Power; Silence
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It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
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Related Topic(s): Evil; Inaction; Justice; Silence
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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