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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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External nature is only internal nature writ large. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. ↗

— Mark Strand

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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

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