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The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#been #carried #during #effect #employed

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#beautiful #beautiful woman #behind #down #fun

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#assassination #early #having #i #malcolm

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#appears #black #genocidal #people #plan

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#exist #i #i am #looking #maybe

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#bush #bush administration #desire #does #islam

afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mental consciousnesses]. however, when any of the afflicting mental factors becomes manifest, a main mind [a mental consciousness] comes under its influence, goes wherever the affliction leads it, and 'accumulates' a bad action. there are a great many different kinds of afflictions, but the chief of them are desire, hatred, pride, wrong view and so forth. of these, desire and hatred are chief. because of an initial attachment to oneself, hatred arises when something undesirable occurs. further, through being attached to oneself the pride that holds one to be superior arises, and similarly when one has no knowledge of something, a wrong view that holds the object of this knowledge to be non-existent arises. how do self-attachment and so forth arise in such great force? because of beginningless conditioning, the mind tightly holds to 'i, i' even in dreams, and through the power of this conception, self-attachment and so forth occur. this false conception of 'i' arises because of one's lack of knowledge concerning the mode of existence of things. the fact that all objects are empty of inherent existence is obscured and one conceives things to exist inherently; the strong conception of 'i' derives from this. therefore, the conception that phenomena inherently exist is the afflicting ignorance that is the ultimate root of all afflictions. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#empty #self #selflessness #the-middle-way #dreams

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#been #benefactor #confidence #death #die

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#agenda #black #concerns #electorate #forthrightly