"It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown."
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"Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense."
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"Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer."
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"It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching."
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"Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference."
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"You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."
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"It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance."
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"Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister."
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"The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk."
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"Use your human intelligence in the best way you can; transform your emotions in a positive way."
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"We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted as material plenty has become the norm for the majority in much of the world; and partly because the slow retreat of religion that coincided with the spread of a capitalist economy has left a gaping hole in millions of people's lives. (Geoff Mulgan)"
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"A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all."
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"Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings."
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"I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher."
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"Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives."
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"A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness."
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"It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them."
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"Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of 'I' and we're all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering."
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"The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have."
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"The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect."
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