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“We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.”

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Tony Abbott served as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from September 2013 to September 2015. He is a member of the Liberal Party and has held various political positions throughout his career. Born on November 4, 1957, in London, United Kingdom, Abbott moved to Australia with his family at a young age. more

“We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain dispassionate and fundamentally unaffected by them. That does not mean to be a cold person. Rather, it means not to be caught and dragged around by circumstances.”

Mean Persons Doe Self Cold Circumstances Caught Observation Persistent Self Centered Unreality Dispassionate

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“All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.”

I Can Dream Can Do Work Right Now Ego Experience Who I Am

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“But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.”

Dream Reality Memories Opinion Future Essentials Judgment Percent Ninety Spinning Spinning Around

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“We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.”

Facts Pain Freedom Our Lives Possibility Wake Up Painful Waking

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“Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.”

Life Moving Hurt Practice Meditation Meditation Practice Hurting Myself

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“An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.”

Has Beens Three Answers Three Times Thumbs

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“Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.”

Knows World Way Looks Mean Moving Pleasure Virtue Taste Pure Down And Filled Busy Sensuality Regions Abiding Gluttony

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

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