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God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

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Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
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Science Sick Tree
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.
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Himself Man Reason Sex Strong Woman
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.
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Doctor Food Goodness Help Light Religion Wine
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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Believe Existence Man Philosophy
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

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