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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.

Annie Besant

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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What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
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Beautiful Body Education Emotion Expression Health Strength Training
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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Atheist Goodness Happiness Philosophy Religion World
All men die. You may say: ‘Is that encouraging?’ Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
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Break Death Encouragement Life Man Mistake Spiritual
Thought creates character.
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Character Creation One Liner 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
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.
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Deep Difference Divine Empty Light Meditation Soul Spiritual Wait
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
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God Greatness Man Woman Work
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
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
As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.
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Difference Emotion Judgement Memories Thinking
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
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 misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
ANNIE BESANT

Evolution Human Misery Ourselves

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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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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