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"The disciplined rule our world."

"If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts."

"Challenge authority, the authority of your own rational convictions."

"Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm."

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that 'ours' is correct; nor do 'we' have the time to make you correct as well."

"Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed."

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."

"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."

"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
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