It is useless to try to suppress terrorism if manufacture, sale and distribution or weapons by which terror is perpetuated continues to be a legal, legitimate activity of commerce having the sanction of government. · 

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Every large city is, to some extent, evidence of the exceptional ability of people to adapt to inhumane conditions.

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Perception is powerfully transformative. Advice, thought to be a justifiable gift by the adviser, is thought by the recipient to be an unwarranted intrusion.

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Oh! how we love to judge ourselves by our good intentions, but judge others by their lack of results.

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Love, tolerance, generosity, kindness and empathy have no need to announce their arrival, present their credentials, or justify their presence.

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Loosen your tenacious grip on opinion and desire. Peace and contentment are waiting to take you by the hand.

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We open the door with one hand, urging our children to go forth and conquer the world, yet cling to them tenaciously with the other hoping to keep them with us forever. Fortunately, neither choice is ours to make, for their lives are not ours to live.

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If you are cautious and careful about where you go, there will be no need to conceal where you have been.

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Ignorance is ever more inclined to instruct Wisdom, than wisdom is to instruct ignorance.

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Vision without effort is impotent. Effort without vision is blind. Vision and effort, without morality, will eventually turn toxic. 

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What a bore it is to live in the age of the “mathification” of man – – – the effort to turn every marvel, and mystery, into measurement and mathematics. Where is the scientist who can write an equation for the mystery of a thought, or the feeling evoked by a newborn child?

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Leaders (so called) who place profit, and aggrandizement of self and institution above all other values are engaged in tyranny no matter what they profess. Society is awash, and turning rotten, with them.

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Organized systems of knowing tend to lock themselves behind walls of assumption, and moats of ideology, anxious to pour the boiling oil of abuse,and condemnation on common sense and wisdom if they attempt to enter, modern science not excepted.

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Nature is serenely calm and content. It will never take instruction from us, no matter how much havoc we create in the attempt. In time, it may notice, shrug, put an end to us, happily experimenting with creatures more beneficent and harmonious. We will not be here to explain.