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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."
"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."
"Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel."
"Everyone in this world perform their 'duty'. But when one performs the 'duty' and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world."
"We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society."
"Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
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"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
"The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery."
"If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future."
"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation."
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."
"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
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