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Related Topic(s): Love; Truth; Tyrants Tyranny

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

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Ghandi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, ; 2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha"�resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total nonviolence"�which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ, bāpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience while an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, during the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he organized protests by peasants, farmers, and urban labourers concerning excessive land-tax and discrimination. After assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance. Above all, he aimed to achieve Swaraj or the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led his followers in the Non-cooperation movement that protested the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (240 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930. Later he campaigned against the British to Quit India. Gandhi spent a number of years in jail in both South Africa and India.

Related Topic(s): Excess; Friendship; Love

I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Aldous Huxley

Related Topic(s): Brain; Love; Romance

....we can exchange sparks of light with another's eyes when we meet our lover on the dance floor at someone else's wedding.
Our brains then go about warmed and fiery, and with one note they can explode into cello concertos and can imagine the giant blinking at the top of the bean stalk... His barbarous fingers scratching his head.

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Robert Bly

An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States

Related Topic(s): Appearance; FACE; Imagination; Love

I have wandered in a face, for hours . . ."

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Robert Bly

An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States

Related Topic(s): Change; Love; Unfinished; Whole

I love you with what in me is unfinished.
I love you with what in me is still
Changing, what has no head or arms
Or legs, what has not found its body.

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Robert Bly

An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States

Related Topic(s): Love; Relationships

I want nothing from You but to see You

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Robert Bly

An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States

Related Topic(s): Love

Who is this in me who loves you so?
It must be four fiery men;
They make up a man who loves you.

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Robert Bly

An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States

Related Topic(s): Ethics; Hope Hopefulness; Humbleness; Love; OBVIOUS; Thinking; Truth

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

“There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact”

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important”

“Then must you strive to be worthy of her love. Be brave and pure, fearless to the strong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosper or no, you will have fitte...
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Related Topic(s): God; Innocence; Inspiration; Love; Manhood Masculinity; Patriotism; Self-Love

Why does everyone hate you?
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Terrance Scott

Related Topic(s): HABIT; Love; Power

Habit is all powerful, even in love.

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Vauvenargues

Related Topic(s): Love; Power

I'm jealous of anyone who makes a light bulb flash on in your head.
No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections, There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco, OMRI (Italian: [umˈbÉ›rto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written further novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His most recent novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.

Eco has also written academic texts, children's books and many essays. He is founder of the Dipartimento di Comunicazione (Department of Media Studies) at the University of the Republic of San Marino, President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici (Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities), University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei (since November 2010), and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

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Related Topic(s): Connection; Love; Relationships; Wholeness

Love is a desire of the whole being to be united to some other being.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
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an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, is highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence, via Emerson, on American transcendentalism.

Throughout his adult life, Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts of anxiety and depression (neuralgia); it has been speculated that Coleridge suffered from bipolar disorder, a mental disorder which was unknown during his life.[1] Coleridge chose to treat these episodes with opium, becoming an addict in the process.

Related Topic(s): Connection; Information; Love; Search

I'm jealous of anyone who makes a light bulb flash on in your head.
No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections, There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.
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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco, OMRI (Italian: [umˈbÉ›rto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written further novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His most recent novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.

Eco has also written academic texts, children's books and many essays. He is founder of the Dipartimento di Comunicazione (Department of Media Studies) at the University of the Republic of San Marino, President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici (Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities), University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei (since November 2010), and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

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Related Topic(s): Love; Peace; Power

When the power of love conquers the love of power then the world will know peace.

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Jimi Hendrix

Related Topic(s): Love; Power; Shadow

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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CARL JUNG

Related Topic(s): Co-dependence; Emotions; Feelings; Heart; Love

Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered. The front door is on the street. Some keep it always open; some keep it latched; some locked; some bolted,-- with a chain that will let you peep in, but not get in; and some nail it up, so that nothing can pass its threshold. This front door leads into a passage which opens into an ante-room, and this into the interior apartments. The side door opens at once i...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Related Topic(s): Love

If we spend our lives in loving, we have no leisure to complain, or to feel unhappiness.

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Joseph Joubert

Related Topic(s): Heart; Love

In love, the heart is the judge.

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Joseph Joubert

Related Topic(s): Love; Peace; Power

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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Jimi Hendrix

Related Topic(s): Decision; FEAR; Fear Of Death; Greatness; Journey; Love; Path; Responsibility; Your_road

Walking the great path brings great responsibility. You cannot fear it nor hesitate in your resolve.
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