#enlighten

To Do Today, 1/17/08 1. Sit and think 2. Reach enlightenment 3. Feed the cats ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. ↗

— Frances Densmore

#old-songs #silence #transcendence #wind #dreams

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. ↗

— Michael Eisner

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Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

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