"The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions."
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"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."
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"We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key."
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"I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor."
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"The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care."
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"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness."
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"And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect."
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"There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness."
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"And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people."
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"And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"."
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"When joy disappears, look for your mistake"
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"Vengeance is mine; I will repay."
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"A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it."
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"Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others."
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"The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction."
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"God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission."
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"In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions."
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"The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality."
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"A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away"
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"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."
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