Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury."
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Injury
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"There is no virtue higher than non-injury."
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"Your best posture is your next posture."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"It is better to take many injuries than to give one."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries."
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"The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it."
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"We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe."
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"My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury."
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"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."
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"Most injuries happen when you're not motivated, too, and you're forcing yourself to do something. Your mind's not aligned with your body and you're just going through the motions. That's when you're most likely to get injured."
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"Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible"
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"Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound."
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"Adultery is the injury of nature."
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"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
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"Wounds cannot be cured without searching."
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"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."
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"Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury."
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"An injury may prove a blessing."
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"It is better to receive than to do injury."
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"Good Christians should never avenge injuries."
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"There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any."
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"The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize."
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"I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet."
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"People say I'm injury-prone but that's definitely not true."
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"Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve."
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