"There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it."

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“Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.”

“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”

“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”

“God's glowing covenant.”

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.”

“If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?”

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"The Nehruvian dream today has become a pungent necessity, inescapable necessity. In 1947, one could say that it was a dream, it was Gandhi's dream also. But now it has become an inescapable necessity …"

— K. R. Narayanan

Politics1920–2005

#hope

"There is proof enough furnished by every science, but by none more than geometry, that the world to which we have been allotted is peculiarly adapted to our minds, and admirably fitted to promote our …"

— Benjamin Peirce

Mathematics1809–1880

#change

"That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have…"

— Otto Weininger

Philosophy1880–1903

#time

"I would like to take your minds back many, many centuries into a familiar experience so significantly recorded in the sacred Scriptures. The Children of Israel had been reduced into the bondage of phy…"

— Martin Luther King

Social Activism1929–1968

#family