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«Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
Compassion
| Keywords:
embrace, scope, self-concern, widen, widened, widens
«Nobody ever outgrows scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years»
«Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Culture
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culture, widen, widened, widens
«An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the Burden of the Mystery»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Knowledge
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burden, ease, extensive, fever, fevers, heat, needful, speculation, speculations, widen, widened, widens
«Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Achievement
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circles, compassion, creatures, embrace, prison, task, widen, widened, widening, widens
«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mankind
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«Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
beauty, circle, circling, compassion, creatures, embrace, free, in a circle, ITS, living, task, The Creatures, whole, widen, widened, widening, widens
«It took hundreds of years for these woods to grow, and they leveled it in a week. It's gone. After they build new houses here, they'll have to widen the roads and put up gas stations, and pretty soon the whole area will just be a big strip. Eventually there won't be a nice spot left anywhere. I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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«The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
astonishingly, catchword, catchwords, rift, rifted, sexes, The Boys, widened
«Interruptions can be viewed as sources of irritation or opportunities for service, as moments lost or experience gained, as time wasted or horizons widened. They can annoy us or enrich us, get under our skin or give us a shot in the arm. Monopolize our minutes or spice our schedules, depending on our attitude toward them.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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annoy, arm, depending, depending on, enrich, gained, horizons, interruptions, irritation, irritations, monopolize, monopolized, scheduled, schedules, scheduling, shot, sources, spice, spiced, viewed, widen, widened, widens
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