"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change."

Pilgrim, Peace on worry
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"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me."

Pilgrim, Peace on spirituality   

"A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose."

Pilgrim, Peace on purpose
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"The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems."

Pilgrim, Peace on problems
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"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest."

Pilgrim, Peace on possessions
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"You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them."

Pilgrim, Peace on negotiation
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"An ordinary man away from home giving advice."

Wilde, Oscar on experts
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."

Wilde, Oscar on evangelism
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"I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."

Voltaire on imagination
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"I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one."

Voltaire on law and lawyers
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"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."

Voltaire on government
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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire on lies and lying
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"Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."

Voltaire on animals
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."

Voltaire on love
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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire on medicine
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"If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

Voltaire on multiculturalism
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"The superfluous is very necessary."

Voltaire on necessity   

"In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

Voltaire on news
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire on government
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire on god
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"Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."

Voltaire on age and aging   

"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

Voltaire on divorce
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire on evil
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"The best is the enemy of the good."

Voltaire on excellence
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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

Voltaire on fate
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"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire on freedom
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