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"If one regards oneself as superior, equal, or inferior by reason of the body, which is impermanent, painful and subject to change, what else is this but not seeing things as they are? If one regards oneself as superior, equal, or inferior by reason of feelings, perceptions, volitions, or consciousness, what else is this but not seeing things as they are? If one does not regard oneself as superior, equal, or inferior by reason of the body, the feelings, perceptions, volitions, or consciousness, what else is this but seeing things as they are?”

(From The Discourses of the Buddha, Khanda-Samyutta, No. 49)

Quoter: Nick

“Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
 -Stephen Hawking

Quoter: Simon

"Within a political society, as soon as a certain number of individuals find they hold in common ideas, interests, sentiments, and occupations which the rest of the population does not share in, it is inevitable that, under the influence of these similarities, they should be attracted to one another. They will seek one another out, enter into relationships, and associate together. Thus a restricted group is gradually formed within society as a whole, with its own special features. Once such a group is formed, a moral life evolves within it which naturally bears the distinguishing mark of the special conditions in which it has developed. It is impossible for men to live together and be in regular contact with one another without their acquiring some feeling for the group which they constitute through having united together, without their becoming attached to it, concerning themselves with its interests and taking it into account in their behaviour. And this attachment to something that transcends the individual, this subordination of the particular to the general interest, is the very well-spring of all moral activity. Let this sentiment only crystallise and grow more determinate, let it be translated into well-defined formulas by being applied to the most common circumstances of life, and we see gradually be constituted a corpus of moral rules."

-Emile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society

Quoter: Micah