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"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."
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"The beautiful truth about service is that we are afforded countless opportunities to be its vehicle. Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve. From simply letting someone into your lane in traffic, to holding a door, to a kind smile. This is all service. I am humbled by this simple truth. We are given the opportunity to express the most meaningful use of our lives every time we interact with another sentient being."

"For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most."

"Without love, the world would be a heap of ruins."

"In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise."

"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

"The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature."

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."

"[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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