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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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"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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"Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?"
Survival
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
Modernity
"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could."
Sermons
"But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel."
Death
"Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out."
Age
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
People
"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."
Art
"I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation."
Hope
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
Life
"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
Perception
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