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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness."

Long Soul Wise
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Rosalia de Castro Poet, Novelist
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"All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls."

Beautiful Soul Joy
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again."

Soul Evil Perfection
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, "I will destroy the world." It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship."

Two Soul Perfection
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by us; we all have the same glorious soul, let us believe in it."

Believe Soul Motivational
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles."

Men Eye Soul
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'"

Soul Ignorant Dawn
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows."

Soul Dancing Shadow
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us."

Soul Source Holy
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Shriram Sharma Businessman
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"This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality."

Spiritual Soul God
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Rene Descartes Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them."

Soul Passion Training
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Saul Williams Poet, Actor, Musician
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"I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history."

Self Soul Destiny
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"As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person."

Heart Soul Artist
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment."

Men Spiritual Soul
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul."

Trying Soul Leader
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