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“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.”

Knows World Mean Results Know How Becoming Unity Access Educated Supposed To Be Bored Significance Thick Texture Randomness

Author:Eva Brann

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

Giving May Mean Goal Pleasure Effort Principles Becoming Giving Up Realization

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.”

Mean Fighting Causes Justice Democracy Violence Becoming Meaningful Tyranny Oppression Cycles Combat Ruthless Fanaticism Cycle Of Violence

Book:The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

Source: The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

“Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?”

Mean Brain Evolution Becoming Introducing Becoming More Subservient

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.”

Mind Mean Doe Real Suffering Causes Enjoy Understanding Cold Becoming Overcoming Contrary Fulfillment Attachment Indifferent Enjoy Life Relaxed

Book:How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

Source: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)

“Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.”

Mean Soul Common Quality Becoming Appearing Illiterate Contention Obstinacy

Book:Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator

Source: Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator

“Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.”

Should Mean Country Security Military Becoming Instruments Other Countries Superiority Disarmament Weakening Enhancement

Author:Sha Zukang

“Becoming enlightened doesn't mean everything works your way.”

Way Mean Becoming Enlightenment Enlightened Becoming Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz