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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Annie Besant

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
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Action Blessing Kind Live Man Moral Ourselves Rule True
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God’s manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
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Beautiful Death God Happiness Himself Man Nature Shine Touch Work
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
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Argument God Greatness Hate Liberty Nation Passion Strong
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.
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Freedom Justice Law Liberty Protection Religious Right Woman
The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.
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Forever God Knowledge Life Man Need Religion
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
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Adventure Battle Country Dangerous Face Forget Inspirational Joy Life Lose Noble Win
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
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Country Desire Future Judgement Knowledge Necessary Past Present Understand
You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.
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Best Practice Religion Teaching Worst Yourself
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
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Life Spiritual
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Believe Evidence Experience Limitation Logic Mad Ourselves Position
Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.
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Thought creates character.
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Character Creation One Liner Thinking
We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.
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The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
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Energy Man Meditation Missing Opportunity Wasted Time
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man

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