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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

Almost Been Development Even
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
Global Human Mission Progress
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Acting Away Easily Human
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Anything Away Become Business
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Assert Dare Known Limit
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Many Must Numbers Say
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Actions Hidden Indifferent Man
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Although Authentic Become Cannot
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Nothing Life Good Marriage
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Between Book Deal Difference
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Best Complete Contempt Education
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A Good Man Call Example Five
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Any Feel God I Can
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Earth Garden Heaven Human
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Attention Command Common Common Things
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Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

Across Christ Could Fellow
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Country Eyes Feet His
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friends Human Human Race Part
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage Dignity Grace His
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Fool Laugh Man Older
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

Counting Dead Drain Fruitful
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Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
Dependent Few Guerrilla Kind
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Different Eminent Great Man
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
Aim Cultivation Existence Human
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Admit Another Class Country
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.

Change Channels Full Ideal
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

Because Believe Cannot Capacity
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

Democratic History Looked Many
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Accept Beings Clear Different
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

Ability Become Control Counterproductive
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

Appearance Authentic Beyond Characteristic
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

Anatomy Bomb Constantly Cut
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

Better Black Children Choices
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

After Core Down Empire
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Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

About Agenda Appreciated Deeds
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Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

Awareness Bare Being Beneath
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My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

Assumption Fundamentally Picture Human
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The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

True Hypocrite Knows He
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Freud never questioned the powerful participation of objective realities in the very constitution of human experience. Love, as he put it late in life, seeks objects. So does hatred. And those objects are external, not internal, agents of experience.

Freud Questioned Powerful Participation
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

Before Contradict Endeavor Fair
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Death Done Duty His
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Accepted Been Excited Fugitive
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Destiny Each Enabling Help
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Destroy Diseases Him Instincts
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Him Ignorant Learn Man
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