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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do."

"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."

"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free."


"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."


"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."


"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."


"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."


"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better."


"As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God."


"Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak."
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