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“Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.”

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Vyasa

Vyasa, the compiler of the great Indian epic 'Mahabharata', whose life and birth and death dates are unknown. As a great epic writer, his works have had a profound impact on Indian literature and culture. more

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Author:Martin Burns

“In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.”

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Author:Whitley Strieber

“Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.”

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Book:The Problems of Philosophy

Source: The Problems of Philosophy

“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.”

“If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.”

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Book:Mortal Questions

Source: Mortal Questions

“The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.”

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Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.”

Mind Stills Rebellion

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

“I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

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