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"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way" - Thick Nhat Hanh

"A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there" - Unknown Author

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway" - Earl Nightingale

"Avoiding failure is to avoid progress" - Unknown Author
 

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“The tendencies we have mentioned are something new for America. They arose when, under the influence of the two World Wars and the consequent concentration of all forces on a military goal, a predominantly military mentality developed, which with the almost sudden victory became even more accentuated. The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years. I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and I know that, independent of me, this analogy has most painfully occurred to others as well. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts—in short, the psychological factors—are considered as unimportant and secondary. Herein lies a certain resemblance to Marxism, at least insofar as its theoretical side alone is kept in view. The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes “human materiel.” The normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint. Instead, the military mentality raises “naked power” as a goal in itself—one of the strangest illusions to which men can succumb.”
~Albert Einstein.
 
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"We have the full right to say that every government is a conspiracy, a conspiracy against the freedom of mankind" - Hristo Botev

"No nation should be freed, nations have to free themselves or perish." - Stefan Stambolov

"Every power that moves away from the people falls like a tree cut into its roots" - Petko Slaveikov

"If you're sad, Grandma said. Then weep. When the tears run out, life continues" - Elin Pelin
 

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“[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.”
~Albert Einstein.
 
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"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view" - Mao Zedong

"New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it" - David Wong

"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change" - Stephen Covey

"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it" - Thomas Sowell
 
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Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey [...]
- Moustafa Mond

Aldous Huxley describing our wretched feeling souls in "Brave new world".
 

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“Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things. In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this:--As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
~Albert Einstein.
 
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''Man is forever sentenced to mourn his own past'' - Lyuben Dilov

''A person needs two friends - one who is unhappy, with whom to share his misfortune, and one who is happy, with whom to share his joy'' - Denica Dilova

''When two people turn their backs, normally one of them looks ahead, and the other one in the past'' - Zahari Karabashliev

''The only savior against the inexorability of destiny is to run against it. That way man is left with the chance of a accidental mismatch'' - Pavel Vezhinov
 

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“Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilárd, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. ...

This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable—though much less certain—that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might well destroy the whole port altogether with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.”

~Albert Einstein.
 

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“The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.”
~Albert Einstein.
 
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"We build our own life, according to the thoughts and desires we have, deeply hidden in our souls" - Peter Deunov

"Man is created to think, judge, make choices between things, and follow the path of reason, not to accept everything as an unmistakable truth" - Peter Deunov

"The strong person doesn't complain and doesn't justify. He carries his wounds and moves on" - Peter Deunov

"When no one can help you - you can help yourself. This is the philosophy of life" - Peter Deunov
 

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“For while religion prescribes brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual spectacle more resembles a battlefield than an orchestra. Everywhere, in economic as well as in political life, the guiding principle is one of ruthless striving for success at the expense of one's fellow. men. This competitive spirit prevails even in school and, destroying all feelings of human fraternity and cooperation, conceives of achievement not as derived from the love for productive and thoughtful work, but as springing from personal ambition and fear of rejection.”
~Albert Einstein.
 
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twice I did good and that I hear never, once I did bad but that I hear ever.

by women

to rule you must be unkind but fair, to serve you must be kind but unfair

meaning- a ruler must make hard choices that ultimately are for the better of their people even if a few must die. a servant must treat everyone else less than they treat the ruler

ie ruler serves people, servant only serves ruler

by some Russian king

I will speak all the good I know of everyone.

meaning- if I don't talk about you, you must be a real dick

by tall hat American president

the brave march forward into battle, some to death but all to victory

by some Roman dooshbag

To be higher than others you put yourself below. to be ahead of others you put yourself behind. to be before other you put yourself last. thus though you be above others they do not feel your weight. though you be ahead of others they do not count it as injury, though you be before them they do not spit in your face.

by some Asian sages who never experienced real life
 
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“In electrodynamics the continuous field appears side by side with the material particle as the representative of physical reality. This dualism, though disturbing to any systematic mind, has today not yet disappeared...The successful physical systems that have been set up since then represent rather a compromise between these two programs, and it is precisely this character of compromise that stamps them as temporary and logically incomplete...I incline to the belief that physicists will...be brought back to the attempt to realize that program which may suitably be called Maxwell's: the description of physical reality by fields which satisfy...a set of partial differential equations.”
~Albert Einstein.
 
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"For every pain there is also a cure while a person is alive" - Dimitar Talev

"Sin lies to you now, tomorrow your heart will say otherwise" - Dimitar Talev

"When politicians completely rob their citizens, they train them for invasion in other countries" - Radoy Ralin

"Time is within us and we are within time; it turns us and we turn it" - Vasil Levski
 
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a prophet is never accepted by their family and friends

for every illness there is a herb to cure it

if you hand betrays you cut it off and throw it away, it is better to lose a part than the whole

when your enemy takes you one mile, force them to take a further 2. when they rob you of your coat, give them your shirt too. when they strike your right check, offer them your left too. ie, "that all you go, punk?!"
 
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''Action and Counteraction - This is the entire history of mankind. People are thrown forward to come back tomorrow or another day; but they escape only to gather their strength and jump the great space ahead'' - Lyuben Karavelov

''Feeling will be greatly devalued and only false passion, more precisely ambition and selfishness will be incentives for relationships'' - Vangelia Gushterova

''Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy'' - Peter Deunov

''A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself'' - Peter Deunov
 

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“As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene . . . . No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrase-mongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot."
~Albert Einstein.
 
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane

''The secret to living longer is:
eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure'' - Tibetan Proverb

''You can't make something beautiful by force'' - Bulgarian Proverb
 

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“A practical profession is a salvation for a man of my type; an academic career compels a young man to scientific production and only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.”
~Albert Einstein.
 
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