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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

Annie Besant

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
ANNIE BESANT

Evil Greatness Hate Leadership Woman
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
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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Ability Children Community Education Greatness Hands Power Service Win
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
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Ability Body Born Children God Greatness Growth Light Man Nature Soul
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.
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God Human Mad Possible Thinking
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
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
ANNIE BESANT

Humanity Life Nation Person Race
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
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Civilization Development Evolution Intelligence Man Mental Place Simplicity
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.
ANNIE BESANT

Adventure Battle Country Dangerous Face Forget Inspirational Joy Life Lose Noble Win
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
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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Dreams Impression Knowledge Learning
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.
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God Ourselves Power Reality Rule See
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
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Thought creates character.
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Character Creation One Liner Thinking
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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