"There are three kinds of forces: the forces of nature, the spiritual and moral ones, and finally those of history and destiny."

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“In the midst of the titanic struggles of ideologies that dominate our age, it is from our prayers that we derive the firmest support for mind and soul.”

“It is only in the period between adolescence and maturity and not during the earlier stages of development that any organism can unfold its full strength.”

“The community does not suffer deficiencies. What is lacking in one individual is made up by the other.”

“The modern world, more than in any preceding epoch, feels the necessity to learn anew how to pray.”

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"A view of the constitution of matter which recommended itself to Faraday as preferable to the one ordinarily held appears to me to be exactly the view I endeavor to picture as the constitution of spir…"

— William Crookes

Psychology1832–1919

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"The famous Lord Hallifax was rather a pretender to taste, than really possessed of it.—When I had finished the two or three first books of my translation of the Iliad, that lord, "desired to have the …"

— Alexander Pope

Literature1688–1744

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"If all the wisdom of the world and all its art—all the spoils that it has won from nature, all the fire that it has snatched from heaven—were gathered together and divided into heaps, and we could poi…"

— Jerome K. Jerome

drama1859–1927

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"The citizens of the state must give in charity up to fifty percent of their income for the purpose of creating a spiritual atmosphere in the state or in human society, both individually and collective…"

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Philosophy1896–1977

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