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"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
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"Is it not a sign of immaturity to wish for someone's downfall? To wish that he or she fails at whatever productive endeavours they are aiming at? Wishing to be the only one succeeding, while everyone else fails?It's a world where we are all dependent on one another, one way or the other; and trade is happening at a much more sophisticated level than ever before. It is to our collective benefit for people to succeed."
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
"It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time."
"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
"In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do."
"You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so."
"You know what the worst thing about adults is? ...They're not always adults. But that's what I like about them."
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"The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there."
"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."
"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."
"DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him."
"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
"The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living."
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