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True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Simone Weil

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
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Hands Kindness Money Pain Reach Suffering
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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People Religion Revolution
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
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Contradict Transcendence
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Equality Expression Human Need Principle Recognition
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.
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Death Evidence Faith God Injustice Victim
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Aware Joy Reality
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
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Exception Gift Loan Value

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