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It is as difficult to change someone’s opinions as it is to change his tastes.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
- Gautama Buddha
Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
- Scriptures
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
- Chanakya
Like the waves in great rivers, there is no turning back of that which has previously been done…The soul is bound with the fetters made of the fruit of good and evil.
- Upanishads
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
- Maya Angelou
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston S. Churchill
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
- Chanakya
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