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“Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.”

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Geezer Butler

Geezer Butler, born on July 17, 1949, is a British musician best known for his role as the bassist in the iconic heavy metal band Black Sabbath. His musical career began in the late 1960s, and he has had a profound impact on the rock music scene. more

“Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.”

People May Ideas Individual Social Successful Politician Ethics Prison Entrepreneur Educated Killers Ceo Stereotype Psychopath General Public Convicts Successful Individuals

Author:Robert D. Hare

“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we exchange our cells, pass on some of our lifeforce, and then we go on carrying that person in our body, not unlike springtime when certain plants in fields we walk through attach their seeds in the form of small burrs to our socks, our pants, our caps, as if to say, 'Go on, take us with you, carry us to root in another place.' This is how we survive long after we are dead. This is why it is important who we become, because we pass it on.”

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Author:Natalie Goldberg

“There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.”

Action Suffering Term Ethics Absolutes Harm Our Thoughts Good And Bad Our Actions

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.”

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Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self

“Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.”

Knows Men Mind Passion Growth Term Path Duty Morality Civilization Ethics Performances Mastery Citizenship Observance

Book:Hind Swaraj

Source: Hind Swaraj

“It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.”

Ifs Persons Ideas Teach Virtue Ethics Absolutes Ethical Day To Day Vary Relativity Broadmindedness

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.”

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