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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.

Annie Besant

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
ANNIE BESANT

Evolution Lie Moral Sentence Work
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
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Life Spiritual
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
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.
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Difficult Existence Failure Growth Heart Love Rise Save Soul Strong Suffering
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
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
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
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Character Creation Domination Environment Help Ignorance Knowledge
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
God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.
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Breathe Build End Foundation God Himself Space
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light.
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Hide Light Purity
This Old Testament – containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality – is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy – if there were anyone to be blasphemed – blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.
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Authority Divine Freedom Law Mad Mistake Moral Thinking Word Writing
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
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Build Death Destruction Life Material
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
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
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.
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Foundation Intellectual Moral Necessary Soul

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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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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