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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler
Sky
Ought
Sees
Green
Blue
Anyone
Fields
Who
Paints
How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
Alexander the Great
Me
Happy
Battle
Enemy
Sacrifice
Fall
Victim
Rage
More
Had
Noble
How
Been
Friends
Than
Died
Far
Slain
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Alexander the Great
Earth
Brook
Masters
Nor
Heaven
Cannot
Two
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics
Word
Politician
Says
Never
He
Taken
Since
Surprised
His
Quite
Believes
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles de Gaulle
Silence
Power
Weapon
Ultimate
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Chief Joseph
Tired
Nothing
Talk
Am
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Chief Seattle
Life
Man
Beast
Breath
Tree
Air
All Things
Spirit
Share
Shares
Supports
Same
Things
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle
Life
Man
Whatever
Weave
Web
He
Merely
Himself
Does
Strand
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
Dalai Lama
Anger
Peace
Reality
Mind
Peace Of Mind
Everything
Way
Destroyer
Something
Absolute
Main
Maintain
Because
Very
Interdependent
View
Helpful
Appearance
Peaceful
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama
Education
Take For Granted
Pay
Pay Attention
System
About
Take
Had
Attention
Development
Always
Brain
Modern
Modern Education
View
Granted
The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
Dalai Lama
You
Respect
Woman
Women
Equality
Every
Must
Highest
Buddhist
Between
Question
Esoteric
Age-Old
Stand
Basic
Level
Levels
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
Love
Gardening
Weed
Flower
Though
Falls
Even
Grows
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis
War
Day
Mad
Ourselves
Would
Prevent
Could
Blind
Govern
Came
Years
North
Us
Worked
Twelve
Let Us
Night
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Jesus Christ
Love
You
Reward
Those
Collectors
Same
Tax
Love You
Who
Even
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Death
Statistic
Tragedy
Million
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer
Heart
Better
Single
Pleasure
Thousand
Give
Heads
Bowing
Single Act
Than
Act
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi
Good
Think
Would
Would-Be
Civilization
Idea
Western
Western Civilization
Very
Good Idea
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
Margaret Thatcher
Me
You
Own
Throat
Come
Want
Cut
Your
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher
Politics
People
Party
Believe
Still
Traitors
Regard
Mean
Them
Who
Consensus
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther
Alone
Me
Heart
Mouth
Pray
May
Depths
Grant
Help
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Martin Luther
People
Nothing
Else
Gives
Foolish
He
Lord
Commonly
Riches
Whom
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
God
Faith
Heart
Will
Earnestly
True
True Faith
Call
Heard
Asked
Certainly
Who
Receive
Desired
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Change
Every
Must
Superiority
Ten
Ten Years
Tactics
Maintain
Wishes
Years
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Needs
Men
Consideration
Ability
Only
Take
Never
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba
Man
World
Illusion
Will
Too
Otherwise
Back
Solid
Must
He
House
Principle
Becomes
Built
Sink
Up
Same
Swallowed
Ground
Foundations
Last
Soft
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
Sai Baba
Life
You
Glorious
Live
Harmony
Total
Only
Learn
Lord
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