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    C.G. Jung
    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Clifford D. Simak
    “A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.”
    ― Clifford D. Simak
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    Meister Eckhart
    “Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”
    ― Meister Eckhart
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Only the shallow know themselves”
    ― oscar wilde
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    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: drama, humor, plays
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I can resist anything except temptation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: temptation
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: cynicism
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor, taste
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: fashion
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, motto
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    Oscar Wilde
    “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: america
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: philosophy
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    Harry Truman
    “We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: health, politics
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    Harry Truman
    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

    [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression
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    Harry Truman
    “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “God has no religion.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: god, religion
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    Joseph Campbell
    “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: inspirational, life-lesson, spirituality
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
    tags: cat, cat-people, cats, integrity, meditation, peace, sereneity, spirituality, wisdom, zen, zen-master
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