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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

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In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
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Angry Grief Production Struggle
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
War is the supreme form of prestige.
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Form One Liner War
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

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