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"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."


"I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane."


"Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called 'Gnani' [the enlightened one]."


"Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God."


"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."
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"It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it."
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"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology."


"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."
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