" I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England.
After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me. "

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Who will give the world light? Sacrifice in the past has been the Law, it will be, alas, for ages to come. The earth's bravest and best will have to sacrifice themselves for the good of many, for the welfare of all.

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Truth, purity, and unselfishness - whenever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

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Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

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The highest ideal is eternal and entire self-abnegation, where there is no 'I', but is Thou'.

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By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them.

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All expansion is life, all contraction is death.

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All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

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The national ideals of India are Renunciation and Service. Intensity in those channels, and the rest will take care of itself.

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Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

- SWAMI VIVEKANANDA(http://www.vivekananda.org/quotes.aspx)

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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare
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Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
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And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
William Shakespeare
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Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
William Shakespeare
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Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare
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God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
William Shakespeare
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
William Shakespeare
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His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
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How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
William Shakespeare
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How use doth breed a habit in a man.
William Shakespeare
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I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare
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I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
William Shakespeare
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I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
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I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
William Shakespeare
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I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
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I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
William Shakespeare
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
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I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again.
William Shakespeare
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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare
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In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
William Shakespeare
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
William Shakespeare
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
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I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
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Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Albert Einstein
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein