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"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."
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Personal Development

"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
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"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it."
Fight

"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."
Science

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
Government

"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place."
People

"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
People

"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
Love

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
Business

"Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country."
Man

"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible."
Government

"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness."
Life
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