Empathy is the language of the blind who can see, and compassion is the music of the deaf who can hear. ― Shree Shambav

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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

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The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

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The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

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The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.

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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

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