Buddha teaches..

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Published: Monday, 30 July 2012 18:39

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Buddha teaches: 
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is  spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is  conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

God give us men

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Published: Monday, 30 July 2012 16:56

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GOD GIVE US MEN

"God give us men!  A time like this demands 
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands 
 

Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
 Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
 Men who possess opinions and a will;
 Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
 Men who can stand before a demagogue and damn his 
treacherous flatteries without winking.
 Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog 
In public duty and in private thinking; 
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds 
Their loud professions and their little deeds,
 Mingle in selfish strife, Lo, Freedom weeps,
 Wrong rules the world, and waiting Justice sleeps.
—

Josiah Gilbert Holland 

Proud Man

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Published: Monday, 30 July 2012 15:13

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But man, proud man, 
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, 
His glassy essence, like an angry ape 
Plays such fantastic tricks to heaven 
As make the angels weep.

 -William Shakespeare