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“I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.”

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Miriam Makeba, born on March 4, 1932, was a renowned South African singer, actress, and social activist. Her musical career spanned various genres, including African music, jazz, and pop. Makeba was known for her unique musical style and strong anti-apartheid stance, and her music and activities had a profound impact on the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and around the world. 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.”

Ifs Knows Persons Long Important Body Form Certain Walks Known Fields Goes On Ethics Roots Plant Seeds Cells Pants Caps Springtime Sock Transmit Burrs

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.”

Whole Problem Challenges Effort Moral Personality Ego Ethics Conscious Shadow Shadow Self

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

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