Wednesday, 21 February 2007

“You don't know true love until you have been married for 20 years”- Anon

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Symbols and expressions of love True love is a weighted concept in this matter and must be examined carefully. Love is not a certain term ow...

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him”- Booker T. Washington

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Responsibility is complemented by acceptance Washington promotes the developmental effect that both responsibility and trust can have on an ...
Tuesday, 20 February 2007

“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behi

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Ethics as distinct from morals in the face of objective truth Einstein introduces an interesting argument regarding ethics, the afterlife an...

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing”- Abraham Lincoln

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Character embellishes the reputation The character of the individual is understood to be the personal attributes that enable him or her to r...
Saturday, 17 February 2007

“There are two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

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Einstein identifies a dichotomy both in the individual and also in the society. This could be interpreted as the spiritual and the rational ...

“Mediocrity doesn’t mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters”- Ayn Rand

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Rand here attributes plain mundaneness to have a more malicious core. He asserts that jealousy and a lack of motivation is the source of id...

Come my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world- Tennyson

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Tennyson encourages us all as a society and as individuals to collectively seek a new world. He values ambition and drive which does not ...