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freedom butterfly deny
Charles Dickens I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
freedom tyrants mind
Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
freedom water leaving
Alan Watts As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
freedom disappointment ego
Chogyam Trungpa Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
freedom nice air
Chogyam Trungpa When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.
freedom balance stubborn
Edward Gibbon A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince
freedom believe past
Arnold J. Toynbee We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.
freedom power political
Arnold J. Toynbee The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.
war winning games
Charles Caleb Colton War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war thinking giving
Alan Watts We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot
war men people
Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
war men world
Alan Moore They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.
war responsibility power
Alan Moore Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.
war oil iraq
Alan Greenspan The Iraq War is largely about oil.
war oil iraq
Alan Greenspan I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
war world retrospect
Alan Greenspan The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
war believe iraq
Alan Colmes I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
long wit long-time
Charles Dickens Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
long trials hardship
Charles Stanley You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.
long might serving-god
Charles Spurgeon I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.
long people giving
Charles Spurgeon I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.
long eternity endless
Charles Spurgeon Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!
long doe christ
Charles Spurgeon He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.
long care doe
Charles Spurgeon Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
long effort mind
Alan Watts Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.
long enlightenment standards
Alan Watts Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.