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I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
Adolf Hitler
Nature
Man
See
Cruel
Just
Should
Why
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
Chief Seattle
Loneliness
Great
Man
Beast
Gone
Would
Spirit
Beasts
Without
Were
Die
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Ezra Taft Benson
Me
Pride
Matters
Worldly
Everything
Faces
More
How
Self-Pity
Affects
Selfishness
Common
Center
For each of us, life is a journey. Heavenly Father designed it for us out of love. Each of us has unique experiences and characteristics, but our journey began in the same place before we were born into this world.
Henry B. Eyring
Life
Love
Journey
World
Father
Life Is A
Before
Our
Characteristics
Out
Born
Life Is A Journey
Were
Began
Same
Heavenly
Heavenly Father
Experiences
Place
Us
Unique
Each
Designed
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Mao Zedong
Writing
Dinner
Picture
Party
Revolution
Painting
Dinner Party
Embroidery
Doing
Essay
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther
Beautiful
Music
Art
God
Soul
Calm
Given
Magnificent
Prophets
Delightful
Beautiful Music
Most
Us
Presents
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Self-Defense
Defense
Weapons
Self
Never
Involving
Principle
Condemned
Been
Bloodshed
Gandhi
Even
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action
Alive
Hidden
Direct
Merely
Tension
Surface
Nonviolent
Engage
Who
Creators
Bring
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lion
Government
Sometimes
Other
Secret
Lies
Knowing
Am
Whole
Fox
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion
People
Excellent
Stuff
Quiet
Common
Common People
Keeping
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Best
Word
Way
Best Way
Give
Keep
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck
War
Day
Great
Will
Settled
Majority
Blood
Questions
Iron
Decisions
Means
Speeches
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
Vladimir Lenin
Freedom
Will
State
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
Politics
Trust
People
Fear
Conservatism
Liberalism
Tempered
Distrust
Prudence
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Health
Silence
Mind
Rest
Spirit
True
Refreshment
Body
Nourishment
Sleep
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
Adolf Hitler
Great
People
Emotions
Word
Goddess
Torch
Distress
Cast
Ruthless
Volcanic
Spoken
Spoken Word
Passions
Stirred
Human
Movements
Midst
Popular
Activity
Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
Buddha
Good
Charity
Soil
Tyrannical
Those
Bad
Worthy
Seed
Bestowed
Given
Abundance
Alms
Merits
Like
Were
Passions
Yields
Yoke
Sown
Fruits
Choke
Who
Growth
Receiver
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Ezra Taft Benson
Wisdom
Pride
Humility
Come
Blessings
Curses
Many
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mahatma Gandhi
God
Faith
Man
Also
Non-Violence
Double
Requires
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Death
Free
Nothing
White
Pay
Must
Physical
Brothers
Spirit
Brothers And Sisters
More
Price
Permanent
Sisters
Then
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great
Men
Mediocrity
Enterprises
Small
Attempt
Always
Reducing
End
Them
Level
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men
Virtues
Easily
More
Through
Governed
Than
Vices
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
Pierre de Coubertin
Life
Important
Fighting
Winning
Part
Taking
Most
Most Important Thing
Well
Important Thing
Essential
The Most Important
Games
Conquering
Thing
Olympic
Olympic Games
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
Ramakrishna
God
You
Roof
Important
All Religions
Religions
Through
True
Steps
Pole
Reach
Also
Important Thing
Climb
Bamboo
Up
Stone
Paths
Wooden
Stairs
Realized
Rope
Thing
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
Sai Baba
Spiritual
Man
Emotions
Path
Negative
Values
Lost
Spiritual Path
Only
He
Steps
Real
Jungle
Wandering
Where
Meaning
Use
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba
Needs
Spiritual
Man
Experience
Path
Will
Different Kinds
Difficulties
Complete
Kinds
Spiritual Path
Through
He
Cleansing
Obstacles
Learns
Encounter
Encourage
Very
Different
Experiences
Process
Full
Many
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