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“If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.”
Source : Aga Khan IV's address to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award in Tutzing, Germany, May 20, 2006.
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“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”
Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
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“Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.”
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“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”
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“It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.”
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“Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.”
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“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.”
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“Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.”
