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1021.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

- Crowley, Aleister

1022.

This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or injury to others, a man obtains a proper rule of action by looking at his neighbor as himself.

- Mahabharta, The

1023.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

- Miedzian, Myriam

1024.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

- Bacon, Francis

1025.

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.

- Bhagavad Gita

1026.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

- Maltz, Maxwell

1027.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends.

- Marden, Orison Swett

1028.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

- Blake, William

1029.

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

- Bruno, Giordano

1030.

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

- Hoffer, Eric

1031.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

1032.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

- Gaskell, Elizabeth

1033.

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

- Helvetius, Claude A.

1034.

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

1035.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

1036.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

- Brown, Jerry

1037.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

- Bushnell, Horace

1038.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

1039.

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

- Crowley, Aleister

1040.

I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.

- Bonds, Barry