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"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."
"Without love, life is unsustainable."
"The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor."
"Life fits the shoe you walk in."
"A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many...A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense."
"As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire and wish well the lifethese trees may live when Ino longer rise in the morningsto be pleased with the green of themshining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them."
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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."
"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
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