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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Annie Besant

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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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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Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but there is no such thing as Death at all.
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Death Feeling Live Love Man Separate Touch
There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.
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Faith Religion
There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.
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Charm Competition Excitement Result Survive Wonder
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
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India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.
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Combination Mom Religion Science Spiritual World
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
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Build Darkness Growth Nature Passion Plant Silence Strong Violence
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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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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The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.
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Beautiful Happiness Power Suffering World
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places – on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.
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Battle God Law Leadership Literature Place Poetry Politics Relation Woman
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light.
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Hide Light Purity
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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End Evil Imperfection

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

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