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What made writing Sun Tzu Art of War?

I read different books on the art of war and all did not really say why Sun Tzu wrote his book. So you know why he wrote it? What was its purpose?

Well, assuming that Sun Tzu is a character historical reality, then it was a very good general condition who, after many victories, wrote his book. What is interesting about the art of war is that it comes from the Taoist tradition and therefore, like all good Taoist texts, he has many implied in what I perhaps led to believe that Sun Tzu was also, somehow, trying to show the world how to deal with his life. You probably know From reading your many tips and tricks Sun Tzu on the victory of the conflict in time of war could also apply to win conflicts in life. Considering the talent, scouting the field "(what the situation looks like now and decide how you will find it), etc. are all things that apply to civilian life. Anyway, we will never know the exact reason why Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War, but it may be not the most important.


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How Do Millais’ Paintings of Mariana and Isabella Visualize Tennyson’s and Keats’s Poems of the Same Title?”

Leila Rouhi

Master of Art in English Literature

12.11.2008

How do Millais’ paintings of Mariana and Isabella visualize Tennyson’s and Keats’s poems of the same title?

Introduction:

Millais was born in Southampton, England. He started drawing when he was four years old. He also won several medals for his paintings. In 1847, he met Holman Hunt in Royal Academy and they worked together. When he was nine years old he won his first major prize, the Society of Art’s Silver medal for a drawing of the Battle of Bannockburn. Then, one month after his eleventh birthday, he entered the Academy school as the youngest one.                                                                                                                            (1979, 24)
Millais’s paintings with their unique and new styles are fascinating and admirable. I myself like the way and the reason for the change he gives to the painting and to art. I think it is not just interesting to follow the old ways or methods of doing something, especially painting. And, Millais is still famous because his methods and thoughts are new and challenging. He is one of the main painters of the nineteen century and perhaps the best one who developed a new path in art and especially in painting.

Yet, what I am interested to explain in this essay is not mainly his challenging style and out look in painting, it is the power and delicacy with which he portrays Keats’ and Tennyson’s poems. So, I try to compare Millais’s paintings with these poet’s songs. And, I think it is helpful to refer to The Pre-Raphaelite movement and their main founders beforehand.

The Pre-Raphaelite Movement

In September 18485 seven men founded a secret society called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The term was chosen from their conviction that the painting of Raphael was the origin of a destroyed academic tradition. Three friends and former students of the Royal Academy of Art, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett
Millais were the main members. Much of their subjects matter was based on sources such as Sir Thomas Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur, or through the more recent literature of Walter Scott, John Keats, and Alfred Tennyson.                                                                (1979., 31)

The combining together of the three talents, the high-minded William Holman Hunt, the impulsive Dante Gabriel Rosette, and Millais not only resulted in their creation of a new English School of Painting, but also changed at least for ten years or so, the whole course and direction of Millais own life and work. These three men decided to go back beyond Raphael and paint from nature herself and to put what they saw straight onto canvas without painting on a dark brown canvas or using a brown varnish.                    (1979, 24)

It was at the Academy Schools that he met Holman Hunt and Rossetti and these three brilliant young men founded together the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.              (1974, 19)

Regarding Pre-Raphaelite painters, Stephen Fliegal explains:

“It comprised artists of varying talents, artistic personalities, and visual tendencies. When most of us think of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, we generally summon to mind memorable, almost iconic images of beautiful long-haired women in medieval dress, or scenes drawn from English history and Arthurian legend. While the Pre-Raphaelites were also interested in contemporary Victorian life, there is, to be sure, a fascination; some might call it an obsession, with that vast period we know as the Middle Age. The works of the Pre-Raphaelites are the best-known of all English paintings, and yet there has been a tendency over the years to dismiss them as mere Victoriana, and to deny their proper place in the history of art. The Pre-Raphaelite movement itself crossed the second half of the 19 th century. As an artistic movement, it cannot be defined simply as a single style since.”

In the early nineteenth century, the Gothic style of architecture was increasingly used by owners of actual medieval manors and castles as the appropriate style for renovations and as a link with English antique. The art critic and social philosopher, John Ruskin, was one of the most eloquent and widely read champions of Gothic architecture during the 19 th century.

Among the earliest efforts of the Brotherhood was a plan to illustrate Keats’s poem “Isabella”. Each member was to submit a design for the poem, which was to be executed entirely on these new principles. Millais’s painting of 1849 clearly reveals a deliberated attempt at working in an unfamiliar and archaic style. Yet, at the same time there was something contrived and unnatural about that painting, probably the result of

Millais’s early intellectual uncertainty. What was immediately noticeable in Isabella was the use of bright pigments on a white ground, a feature of Pre-Raphaelite technique.

Another example of Millais’s highly mediavalized paintings was this illustration of Mariana of 1851which is directly motivated by lines from the Tennyson’s poem. Millais is clearly fascinated here with the coloring of medieval manuscripts and the tine brush technique of Memling and Van Eyck. The deep blue of Mariana’s dress contrasts clearly with the deep colors of the stained glass that Millais copied from the-windows of Merton College Chapel in Oxford.

As Baldry explains in his book, their views were direct and clear. Naturalism was the basis of their creed, and they did not accept anything in art without reproducing nature with minute exactness. They believed that every detail of the actual object had to study carefully and no part was unimportant.                                                                   (1899, 8)     

A new philosophy was replacing old ideas of the eighteenth-century which emphasized truth and beauty found in Nature. In 1848, France and much of Europe were involved in revolutions, but in England there were Chartist demonstrations asking for Parliamentary reform for the poor. And, Millais who was just nineteen years old and Holman Hunt were observing these events and were starting to practice new series of
theories about painting. Millais also was interested in a book of Lasinio engravings after wall painting in the Campo Santo at Pisa that were considered interesting for their freshness, and innocence, and clear and simple lines. Pre-Raphaelitism was created out of these ideas, a new style which was against the “Antique School”, and insisting in its inspiration to the fifteenth-century Italian art and for its execution to nature in all its minutest detail.                                                                                                      (1973, 31)       

Millais was influenced by Ruskin’s view of an artist that “… go to nature in all singleness, rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing”, and it was again Ruskin that defended Millai; and the Pre-Raphaelite painters by writing some letters to The Times, and tried to change the public’s view. But, in 1854, Millais was chosen as an Associate in the Royal Academy, Hunt left to the Middle East, and there was almost a breakup in Pre-Raphaelite, which concerned Rossetti.

Millais’s first essay in Pre-Raphaelitism appeared in the Academy in 1849 then in 1850, Millais another painting Christ in the house of his Parents, revealed their secret and showed a kind of opposition and revolt, and in 1851 this painter showed his Pre-Raphaelite morality subject, by his painting The Woodsman’s Daughter and then Mariana, which was based on Tennyson’s poem.                                                    (1979, 31)

Dr. Fredemann explained about the Pre-Raphaelite that:

 ” …the techniques and artistic decisions of the P.R.B. painters
were not based solely on their desire to break from artistic conventions.
John Ruskin, an influential public advocate of the movement who had
written the first favorable review of the P.R.B. in 1849,  had already had an impact on their production. Holman Hunt (who argued that the Pre-
Raphaelite Movement owed its best ideas to himself) had been an avid
reader of Ruskin before his entrance into the Academy. He took from
Ruskin. and disseminated to the rest of the P.R.B., the idea of sincerity in
art, and an attention to nature and detail as can be seen in Christ in the
House of his Parents. This painting came under attack by critics after it
appeared beside Hunt’s A Converted Family in the 1850 Royal Academy
exhibit. Charles Dickens loathed the painting for its attention to detail, truth to nature, and treatment of the religious subject, complaining in Household Words that the figure of the young Christ was “a hideous, wry-necked, blubbering, red-headed boy, in a bed-gown…”  

   (1972, 87)                                                                                                                   

In general, the main qualities of Pre-Raphaelite can be summarized in three ways. Firstly, they are bright, truth to nature, color. Secondly, lack of grace in composition, and thirdly, they usually contain different subject like religion or mediaeval tales4.

MARIANA

Mariana in a velvet cloth was painted according to Tennyson’s poem Mariana.  It was about a young woman who was abandoned by her lover. In his beautiful painting Millais had shown the figure of a young woman who was stretching her body in an idle way while she was looking through the window.

In the picture we can see the picture of the angle, Mary, and also the figure of a soldier with his helmet and sword in the window, her make up table, yellow and green leaves, and a mouse passing behind her.

 Although, Millais did not describe the poem line by line, he had successfully drawn a picture based on the song which would show the main theme in the picture. The young woman’s face might suggest the sadness of her condition. Also, the way she was standing could signify her tiredness and disappointment. Besides, the environment was shown religious and we could find out about this by considering the picture of the angle and the virgin Mary, which might indicate the purity and virginity of Mariana. The autumn leaves also might signify the separation of Mariana of her lover and deepen the gloomy setting of the picture. However, the picture that Millais presented seemed to be true to the song, faithful to the poet, and to the point. Also, he referred to the nature through the leaves of the tree. To understand the painting better I would like to give more explanations by indicating others’ views.

A writer called Spielmann describes the mouse of the picture beautifully: 

“The curious twist that the mouse gives to its body, the strange and stiff-suppleness of its tail, and the intelligence in its bead like eyes, are reproduced with a high skill.”(1898,67)                                                                                                                              

Also, Jeffrey Millais stated, Mariana was a delicate composition and showed his careful and keen eye for dramatic gesture and telling details and so contained all Pre-Raphaelite qualities.                                                                                                        (1979, 32)

John Ruskin pronounced on Millais’s Mariana (1850-1851) in The Three Colors of Pre-Raphaelitism (1878), a lecture in which Millais was described as the best painter, but also classified as the sole member of uneducated branch of Pre-Raphaelitism.

Millais subordinated overt literariness to realism, doing extremely well in what Ruskin calls his physical power…and intense veracity of direct realization to the eye.

For Mariana, however, the Oxford setting was entirely appropriate because it’ provided Millais with an authentic Gothic environment in which to evoke the Gothic mood of the texts he was illustrating, thereby affording him the opportunity of successfully combining realism with literariness.

Millais’s frivolous view towards the spectacle of the Catholic religion exemplified the weak-minded English response to it, which worried Ruskin. Faced with the unfaithful threat posed by Mariana, Ruskin tried to counteract it publicly with rhetoric and in his Times letters he announced: “I am glad to see Mr. Millais’s lady in blue is heartily tired of her painted window and idolatrous toilet table.” And so he implied Mariana’s spiritual disappointment with her idolatrous artifacts while completely avoiding the obvious implication of her sexual frustration. For, Mariana’s evident tiredness was not simply a response to the window’s religious connotations, but her reaction to it was as a visible reminder of the absence of her lover Angelo, the dishonest Viennese Deputy in Measure for Measure, who abandoned Mariana when her gift was lost at sea.

The erotic suggestions of the painting which Ruskin ignored were made clear by George MacBeth7  who explained:

“the sensuous twist given to Mariana’s body as she drowsily inclines her head-not, however, to look out for her absent lover, but to appraise the forward young angel making two-finger sign of sexual invitation before the very eye in the Gothic window pane…. The boy in the window is, of course, the Archangel Gabriel, come to approach Mary with the news of her forthcoming sacred impregnation. The meeting of his eyes, not with those of the Virgin in the window, but with the hotter, more livingly lustful eyes of the girl in the room, pronounces the preliminary sexual arousal of a secular Annunciation.”

In his post-Freudian enthusiasm to unravel the erotic implications of Mariana, Macbeth ignores to make the most element art piece of deduction: the angel in the window is synonymous with the absent lover, Angelo. Millais’s Annunciation scene makes use of a simple Shakespearean pun on the words Angel and Mary and their worldly counterparts Angelo and Mariana.

In Millais’s Annunciation scene Angelo appears in costume of the good angel to the Virgin, although as Mac Beth indicates his gaze is not fixed on her but on Mariana.

Mark Girouard88 noted that:

In (1844-45) Milla is had put together a manuscript book, Sketches of Armor, elaborately illustrated with drawings made in the Tower of London armory. And, the armorial device surmounting the snowdrop shield comprises of a closed helmet surmounted by a mailed arm with a warrior like fist brandishing a lance. The effect of this heraldic configuration is to make the drooping, virginal flower appear to cower beneath a threatened armed figure which looks particularly devilish and indeed phallic, with his devil’s horn protruding from its helmet. Finally, the aggressive downward thrust of the lance appears to be aimed at the head of the Virgin, so that the male symbol appears to be simultaneously threatening her floral emblem of purity…

The pressure in Mariana is weighing up with menacing intent by mailed arm in bend sinister, a sign of ill-omen suggestive of the evil nature of Mariana’s former engaged. And thus, Morris’s9[7]King Arthur’s Tomb, Genevieve’s hostile heraldic description of Lancelot might make clear the negative connotations the Pre-Raphaelites sometimes associated with him, connotations similar to those evoked by Mariana’s heraldic Imagery.

                   Banner of Arthur-with black-blended shield…

                   Sinister-wise across the fair gold ground!

                   Here let me tell you what a knight you are,

                   O, sword and shield of Arthur! You are found

                   A crooked sword, I think, that leaves a scar…                                          

 (363-73)

So, Millais’s closed helmet could intensify the sinister effect, seeming in half-profile to be looking towards the angel and the Virgin, in a threatening gothic manner. The threatening appearance of this armorial figure whose motto informed the viewer was that in heaven there was rest 10.

Also, by looking at the picture carefully, we might notice a verbal similarity between the names Mary and Mariana, and that both of the virgins were threatened by Angelo who was Mariana’s lover, and also it was Mariana who saw the image of her future husband, Angelo, the angle, in the window.

The narrative function of Millais’s windows is signified by the presence of the darkened triptych in the back (67-68) ground whose tripartite pictorial form they match. These painted windows recall and indicate events in the literary texts to which they suggest. Millais’s windows, however, with their double painted and transparent levels, get a comparable effect of simultaneously of vision and evoke feverish presences, without compromising their integrity as real features of rhetoric. Millais makes a Gothic environment in which the supernatural can be shown in a real way and understood in terms of the psychology of the Victorian heroine, whose abandonment by her lover results in her obsession with him and in clear illusion of his presence. This is the psychology produced in Tennyson’s Mariana poem, and it is indicated by Millais by his introduction of the symbolic snowdrop11.

Also, another critic called Sussman believed that:

Millais introduces a complex of Christian iconography not present in Tennyson’s text, in particular the annunciation in the stained glass window and household altar indicates through the reversal of sacred meaning, that Mariana is imprisoned by the idea of female chastity.

And so, in the Tennyson’s persistence to Mariana his Mediterranean heroine’s mirror allows her to put on top her own image after virgin in a corrupt combination of autoeroticism and Mariolatry:

Thus, instead of superimposing her mirrored image upon Mary’s as Tennyson’s Southern Mariana did, Millais’s Mariana identified with her namesake, the virgin in the window who was her mirror image.

 But, she also presented an image of perfect, satisfied womanhood which reflected unfavorably on Mariana who was as Sussman said, imprisoned by the idea of female chastity. Mariana was shut behind her windows which not only reflected her condition but also acted as a psychological moat. There was a symbolic moat outside Mariana’s window, but the one which controled the painting was the one found at the end of Mariana:                                                                                                                     (68-69)

All day within the dreamy house.

 The doors upon their hinges creaked;

 The blue fly sung in the pane; the mouse

 Behind the moldering wainscot shrieked,

 Or from the crevice peered about,

 Her sense; but most she loathed the hour

 When the thick-moted sunbeam lay

 Athwart the chambers, and the day

                                  Was sloping towards his western bower                    (61-80)

According to his son, Millais particularly described the last four of these lines, although his inclusion of the mouse and the old glimmering face of Angelo indicated that both of the final stanzas provided key images for Mariana. But it was this stanza when the thick-mote sunbeam lay / Athwart Mariana’s chambers which particularly attracted Millais, and the successful ward in this image was thick-moted.

 The only thing imprisoning Mariana is a thick-moted sunbeam, a fact we only discover at the end of the poem, and one which shifts it from the realm of objective landscape to the inner world of Mariana’s disturbed mind. Also, the stained glass is the transparent mote behind which Mariana is trapped, and from which she turns away her look wearily and tiredly.

Millais further increases the sadness of Mariana’s environment by introducing the autumn leaves which have entered her room through the closed windows and threatened to overcome and destroy her needlework.

Regarding her figure, Ruskin noted on Mariana Romanticism and yet idleness that:

The picture has always been a precious memory to me, but if the painter had painted Mariana at work in an unmoated grange instead of idle in a moated one, it had been more to the purpose-whether of art or life.

Also, he believed that Mariana was the representative picture of its generation because it was the best symbol of the mud-moted nineteenth century.

 Parker another critic pointed out that: incarceration, the slow passage of time, and the needlework as compensation for male absence- appear in Tennyson’s poem Mariana and motivated Millais’s Painting Mariana.

Isabella

 Lorenzo and Isabella known as Isabella were based on Keats’s poetical paraphrase of Boccaccios’s story. It is about a young unmarried woman who fell in love with a young man called Lorenzo. Later, when their brothers were aware, they lured Lorenzo from the house and killed him buried him in the jungle and hided the truth from their sister. Isabella waited for him for a long time but he did not hear from him till one night she saw him in the dream, and knew that he was murdered. She then found his dead body, took the head and put it in a pot and covered with the basil plant. But, because of her concern for the pot, her brothers stole it and found the head.

 Millais was especially concerned about the moment when Isabella’s brothers found out about her secret love, while Keats referred to it very briefly. He only said that:

                                                                      Found by many signs

 What love Lorenzo for their sister had

 And how she loved him, too.

 One of the signs was mentioned early;

 They could not sit at meals but feel how well

 It soothed each to be the other by.

 And so, Millais chose the dinner table for this picture, and completed it with the servant who was Lorenzo and the family dog which was lying alongside Isabella. The young lovers were gazing each other in a way that revealed their love, and the two brothers were watching them smiling or kicking the dog, which showed their anger of them

 In his painting Millais was careful about the cloth, facial _ expression and gestures to show human nature as they were regardless of time and place. They would be eating, drinking, talking, and waving their arms.

 Spielmann explained in his book that the red orange in the plate which was
passed to Isabella by Lorenzo was the symbol of death, because the one of the brothers
was cracking a nut as if he liked to crack Lorenzo’s head, and was kicking the dog that
his sister liked. The other brother was watching them through his wine glass with a
deceitful smile and the third watched with anger, too. In the other side a nurse, an aged
dame was observing the anger of the eldest and the money bag. The writer also added
that the picture had an excellence of color, fine execution, and extraordinary finish which
attained its perfection in the head of Isabella.                                                    (1898, 84)        

 Fleming believed that Millais’s Isabella was truly remarkable because of the vitality of the scene, the directness of the story, the dramatic interest, and the individualized, expressive portraits, and the meticulous details. With this painting, Millais tried to show the spirit of the Anglo-Italian renaissance and also the Gothic style.                                                                                                                  (1898, 49)

A.L. Baldry concerning the painting added:

This picture, Lorenzo and Isabella with it amazing care in the rendering of textures and
surfaces, its minute finish, its delicate color, and its brilliancy of illumination, is
uncompromising in its realism, and extraordinarily patient in its representation of the
selected material.                                                                                                     (1899, 40)

  Millais’s Lorenzo and Isabella (1849) with its realistic portraits of the artist’s
friends were considered to be a big joke by the public.                                 (1898, 26)

 While beautiful and sentimental, medieval spirituality is obviously lacking in Pre-Raphaelite depictions of sacred subjects. A common devotional image during the later middle Ages was the Annunciation. The Virgin Mary is usually shown in prayer as she receives the Archangel Gabriel who announces the Immaculate Conception.

 The Pre-Raphaelites began painting on a wet, white ground in order to produce outstanding colors that passed through the entire canvas. Many of their paintings, such as Millais’s Isabella of 1849, broke from the prevalent pyramid or triangular placement of figures which draws the attention to a central figure.

 In viewing Millais’s painting, the eye follows a shaking path down one row of profiles and up another even uneven one, then travels across the painting following the horizontal line created by the man’s leg which awkwardly kicks the dog whose head rests on Isabella’s lap. Only after following this circuitous path does the viewer come to focus on Isabella and Lorenzo. This painting also exhibits another element of the Pre-Raphaelite break with Academy conventions, the distorted or flattened perspective characteristic of Dante Rossetti’s paintings, notably Ecce Ancilla Domini (March 1850) (Exhibited at the Free Exhibition in April 1850.)

 Symbolism

 Two emotions dominate Keats’s ‘Isabella’ – the love of the young couple for each other, and the hatred of Isabella’s family. Millais concentrated on these two emotions and used gesture and symbolism to bring out their importance.

In the foreground of the picture, Isabella’s brother sits curved over the table with his foot extended to kick a dog that affectionately nestles at his mistress’s knee. The sensitivity of this animal’s face is in marked contrast to the bared teeth and expression of his attacker, who, while brutally kicking, is at the same time absorbed cracking a nut. His tightened fists and the crushed shells spread on the table before him betray the savagery with which he gives up himself to this labor. It is not difficult to see him as the main person who will eventually kill Lorenzo.

 The expressions on the faces of the rest of the family are not brutal, but by their exaggeratedly straight positions, they suggest a certain self-satisfied satisfaction with their group.

 The figure who is on the left hand side of the table and who holds a glass in front of him is not merely looking at his wine, but also watching out of the corner of his eye at the lovers opposite. He has not missed the expression of burning love in the eyes of Lorenzo, nor the self- restraining look on the face of Isabella. This tension between the lovers and the family is further complicated by the use of more obvious symbols. On the back of a chair on the left hand side of the picture sits a hawk eating the white feather of a dove, a traditional symbol of peace. This indicates the imminent violence.

 On the table there is spilled salt, symbolic of the blood which will later be spilled. The shadow of the arm of the foremost brother is cast across this salt, thus linking him directly with the future bloodshed.

 In contrast to these indicators of violence, Lorenzo offers a blood orange, a symbol of passion and excitement, to Isabella.

 Decorated around, behind Isabella’s head are passion flowers, indicative of her love for Lorenzo, while above Lorenzo’s head are roses, also symbolic of love. These are colored white to indicate the purity of Lorenzo’s affections.

 Millais has also used the archway and curve behind the lovers to link their figures together. Just as Keats’s poetry often relied upon a rich and detailed gathering of images, so too is Millais’s painting rich in detail

 Conclusion
 Through his paintings Millais attacked those who considered Nature as something common an ordinary and also as something not suitable for the imaginative mind. Although, he was not sure about his new attitude towards his new style and thought in painting, he was so determined. He was so determined that he could attract the attention of the public and the art-lovers. He was direct, honest and full of energy. What he painted was in fact his inner self and quality. Also, the simplicity of his art was because he did not want to be involved with side issues. As a matter of fact, he did not form his imagination based on abstraction as dreams and fancies, but fact. He observed the ordinary, every day life. He did not imagine but painted realities in a way that attracted attention.

 In describing the qualities of his paintings, Ruskin said:

 “…he sees every thing, small and large, with almost the same clearness;
mountains and grasshoppers alike; the leaves on the branches; the veins in the pebbles,
the bubbles in the stream…”                                                                
(1899,77)                                                                                                  Yet, it could not be told that his paintings of Isabella and Mariana were a mere imitation, because he chose his topic based on those poems. In fact, his painting based on Tennyson’s poem showed his power of thought and his careful and deep insight into the poem. He pictured the poet’s mind and his words with his power and exactness.

Again, Baldry added:

 The illustrations give us nothing that is not already enshrined in the text, nor do they hint
at any novel or unexpected reading of its hidden meanings; they may be said to make it
visible, and to put the poetic imagery into a tangible form…it was this sense of
adaptation, and this capacity for assimilating knowledge, that made Tennyson’s poem
impressive.                                                                                                                                     
(1899, 92)

He gave to the art and his country a new vitality and spirit. His paintings displayed a kind of power, force, expression, ability, exactness, and brilliancy which are rare and remarkable.

G.H. Fleming believed that if Millais followed Tennyson’s poem line by line, his painting could seem ridiculous.                                                          

In his opinion, the artist’s Isabella was far better than anything Keats ever did.                                                                                        

  (1998, 67-67)

Bibliography

Spielmann, M. H. Millais and his work. Edinburgh and London, 1898.

Fredemann, William. The Germ: A Magazine. Pre-Raphaelite Victorian Poetry.  

London, 1972.

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VOICE OF FREEDOM

  • BILL BURTON –“It makes no sense to wait/or the next attack.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON -“… The decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her god.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON –“Globalization cannot be turned off. It’s the economic equivalent of a force of nature like wind or water.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON –“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that we can all walk across together.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON –“If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON –“That whether you are British, American or some other nationality, the No. 1 task is to move from interdependence —which can be good or bad— to an ;  integrated global community in which there is a shared future, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity and, most importantly, shared values… The only way we can live together is if we say the celebration of our differences requires us to say that our common humanity matters more.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON –“The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON –“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL CLINTON –“When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.â€
  • BILL CLINTON –“You live in the age of interdependence. Borders can’t count for much or stop much, good or bad anymore.â€Â 
  • BILL CLINTON, -“Though more than 500 years have passed since the. birth of Guru Nanak his life and teachings still hold great power and meaning for humanity in the 21st century This annual Sikh observance reminds all Americans that throughout our history, we have drawn strength from many religious institutions and people of diverse faiths have made important contribution to the life of our nation.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL COSBY – “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please every body.â€
  • BILL COSBY –“Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.â€
  • BILL COSBY –“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.â€Â Â 
  • BILL COSBY –“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL GATES –“In my parents I saw a model where they were always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team, I wanted some of that magic myself.â€Â 
  • BILL GATES –“Never before m history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL GATES –“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.â€Â 
  • BILL HICKS –“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And, when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: “Is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say “Hey don’t worry don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.” And we kill those people. “  
  • BILL MAKER –“Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILL MAULDIN –“Law and order is like patriotism. Anyone who comes on strong about patriotism has got something to hide, it never fails. They always turn out to be a crook or… a traitor or something.â€Â 
  • BILL MCGLASHEN –“Faulty meditation. Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL NEIDJIE KAKADU –“Listen carefully this, you can hear me. I’m telling you because earth just like mother and father or brother of you. That tree same thing. Tree for working when you sleeping and dream.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILL SHANKLY –“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILL VAUGHAN –“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.â€
  • BILL WATTERSON –“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILLIE BURKE –“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILLIE HOLIDAY –“They think they can make fuel from horse manure — Now, its sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILLIE HOLODAY –“When in love, sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose it.â€Â 
  • BILLIE JEAN KING –“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILLIE JEAN KING –“Why shouldn’t women make good coaches? We were brought up to listen, to nurture, and to observe.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILLINGS –“I’ve never known a person to live to 110 or more, to be remarkable/or anything else.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILLY GRAHAM – “Hot hands and cold hearts never solve anything.â€
  • BILLY GRAHAM –“an has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILLY GRAHAM –“Billions and billions of stars and planets out there, and behind them all are God.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BILLY GRAHAM –“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILLY JOEL –“Music is an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILLY JOEL –“Out of respect for things I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures and my style is directly related to my limitations.â€Â Â Â 
  • BILLY JOEL –“Shades of grey wherever I go The more I find out the less that I know Black and white is how it should be But shades of grey are the colours I see.â€Â Â 
  • BILLY SUNDAY –“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.â€
  • BING CROSBY –“There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me… We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.â€
  • BISHOP DESMOND TUTU –“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.â€Â 
  • BISHOP WCMAGEE –“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.â€Â Â 
  • BKS IYENGAR –“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.â€Â Â Â 
  • BLACK DIAMOND –“We have to keep finding new ways to promote peace and encourage the people.â€Â 
  • BLACK ELK –“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realise that at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us.â€Â 
  • BLACK ELK –“Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all and I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the centre grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.â€
  • BLACK ELK –“We regard all created beings as sacred and important, for everything has a wochangi or influence which can be given to us, through which we may gain a little more understanding if we are attentive.â€Â Â 
  • BLACK ELK –“We should know that all things are the works of the Great Spirit. We should know that He is within all things the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and all the four-legged animals, and the winged peoples; and even more important, we should understand that He is also above these things and peoples.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BLACK ELK –“We should understand well that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We should know the Great Spirit is within all things: the trees, grass, rivers, mountains, the fourlegged and winged peoples; and even more important, we should understand that the Great Spirit is also above all these things and peoples. When we do understand all this deeply in our hearts, then we will fear, and love, and know the Great spirit, and then we will be and act and live as the Spirit intends.â€
  • BLACK ELK –“Why is the drum often the only instrument we use in our sacred rites? it is because the round form of the drum represents the whole universe, and its steady strong beat is the pulse, the heart, throbbing at the centre of the universe. It is the voice of Wakan Tanka, and this sound stirs us and helps us to understand the mystery and power of all things.â€Â 
  • BLACKFOOT –“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset…â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BLAISE PASCAL- “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believes and enough shadows to blind those who won’t.â€
  • BLAISE PASCAL –“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.â€
  • BLAISE PASCAL –“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BLAISE PASCAL –“Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.â€
  • BLAISE PASCAL –“The heart has its reasons to which reason knows nothing.â€
  • BLAISE PASCAL –“The perfection of Nature shows that she is the image of God; her defects show that she is only His image.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BLAISE PASCAL –“There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees, which are falsehoods on the other.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BLANCHARD AND JOHNSON –“The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people.â€Â Â 
  • BLOGGER –“At every moment in our lives, perhaps, we are to some extent actors, or performers, as well as spectators. When performers and spectators “connect” it creates a very special quality of theatre that both transports and transforms all those involved. In India we cherish this strong link between reality and fantasy first through theatre and now through film. All this age-old mimicry of life somehow affects us and in return this mimicry is in itself a self-definition of the society we live in… Through a little imagination and snap of a finger we are somewhere else. Taking it a step further many forms of classical dance in India imbibe the same values of theatre mixing them till we get operaish dance put to music.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BO BENNETT –“While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.â€Â Â Â 
  • BO DEREK –“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.â€Â Â Â 
  • BOB BROWN –“Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.â€Â Â 
  • BOB DOLE –‘When it’s all over, it’s not who you were … it’s whether you made a difference.â€
  • BOB DYLAN – “SOME PEOPLE SEEM TO FED AWAY, BUT THEN WHEN THEY ARE TRULY GONE, IT’S LIKE THEY DIDN’T FED AWAY AT ALL.â€
  • BOB DYLAN – “Steal little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.â€
  • BOB DYLAN – “We sit here stranded, though we’re all doing our best to deny it.â€
  • BOB DYLAN –“At times I think there are no words but these to tell what’s true. And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.â€
  • BOB DYLAN –“If you got to go, go now or else you gotta stay all night.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB DYLAN –“I’ve dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings/And I’ve never been too impressed.â€Â Â Â 
  • BOB DYLAN –“I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB DYLAN –“Man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.â€Â Â 
  • BOB DYLAN –“She knows there’s no success like failure. And that failures no success at all.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB DYLAN –“To live outside the law, you must be honest.â€Â Â 
  • BOB DYLAN –“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.â€
  • BOB FITZSIMMONS –“The bigger they come, the harder they fall.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB GELDOF –“When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.â€Â Â Â 
  • BOB HOPE –“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it.â€Â Â 
  • BOB HOPE –“I do benefits for all religions — I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.â€
  • BOB HOPE –“If you haven’t any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble.â€
  • BOB HOPE –“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?â€Â Â 
  • BOB LEY –“If character is what you do when no one is watching, then perhaps sportsmanship is conduct with everybody watching? Frankly, the sports industry would probably survive without sportsmanship. It’s so large and so well financed, but it would be refreshing if more players realised there is room to win with flair and style and even get rich and still keep the values that first brought us here to the games.â€
  • BOB MARLEY -“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds.â€
  • BOB MARLEY –“Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts. Put your vision to reality…Don’t forget your history Know your destiny in the abundance of water the fool is thirsty. Rat race, rat race, rat race…â€Â 
  • BOB MARLEY –“Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can’t refuse it what to be.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB MARLEY –“One Love! One Heart! Let’s get together and feel all right Hear the children cryin’ (One Love!); Hear the children cryin’ (One Heart!), Say in’: give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Sayin’: let’s get together; and feel all right.â€Â Â 
  • BOB MARLEY –“You ain’t gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.â€
  • BOB MOAWAD –“You can work miracles by having faith in others. To get the best out of people, choose to think and believe the best about them.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB NEY –“Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States’ oil reserves by nearly 50 per cent, but it will create thousands of good US jobs.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB PACKWOOD –“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience carries from bad judgement.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB RICHARDS –“There is greatness all around you — welcome it! It is easy to be great when you get around great people.â€Â Â 
  • BOB RICHARDS –“You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!â€Â Â 
  • BOB THAVES –“I don’t know if I can live on my income or not — the government wont let me try it.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOB WELLS –“Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOBBY FISCHER –“All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess… Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can’t separate body from mind… I give 98 per cent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 per cent… I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.â€
  • BOBBY UNSER –“Nobody remembers who finished second but the buy who finished second.â€
  • BOEHME –“The chaste virgin signifies in the philosophic work the clear Deity.â€
  • BOETHIUS –“Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.â€Â Â Â 
  • BOLOZOFF –“We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.â€Â Â 
  • BONNIE RAITT –“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â    
  • BONO –“It’s no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a past. It’s no secret ambition it’s the nails of success.â€
  • BONO –“The Church has its problems. but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER –“God is our hope and strength. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth is moved: and though the hills are carried into the midst of the sea?â€Â 
  • BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER –“Here we offer and present unto thee, 0 Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and lively sacrifice unto Thee.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER –“The folds shall be full of sheep: the, valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing.â€Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BOOK OF GENESIS –“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.â€Â Â 
  • BOOK OF RITUAL –“The art of government simply consists in making things right, or putting things in their right places. When the ruler himself is right, then the people naturally follow him in his right course.â€
  • BOOK OF SONGS –“He makes no show of his moral worth, Yet all the princes follow in his steps.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BOOKER T WASHINGTON –“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcoming.?â€Â Â 
  • BOOKER T. WASHINGTON –“There are two ways of exerting ones strength — one is pushing down, and the other is pulling up.â€Â Â 
  • BOOKER T. WASHINGTON-” Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him and let him know that you trust him.â€
  • BOOKER WASHINGTON –“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.â€
  • BORGEET OF SHANKARDEV –“I beseech you, beg of you, oh, Hari Let Life unto me be infused, Liberate me from addictions, I’m in life utterly confused! Putrid is my pelf, my youth, my life, Restless is my world, I frown, All are meaningless, my progeny, my wife, Whom should I call my own! My soul quivers like drops on lotus petal I am not placated for a bit, every second of my life is fatal I seek your eternal feet! “This ocean of pang”, Shankara spake, “Oh, Lord Hrisheekesha, help me cross, Motivate Shreepati, you’re the path I take, in thou spirit, trail and advice, I engross!”
  • BORIS PASTERNAK –“As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.â€
  • BORIS PASTERNAK –“As for those in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.â€Â Â Â 
  • BORIS PASTERNAK –“Man is born to live, and not to prepare for life.â€Â 
  • BORIS PASTERNAK –“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.â€Â Â 
  • BORIS PASTERNAK –“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.â€
  • BORIS PASTERNOK- “Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.â€
  • BOVEE –“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BOY GEORGE –“An actor is a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, he ain’t listening.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BR AMBEDKAR –“History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.â€Â Â 
  • BR AMBEDKAR –“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.â€
  • BR AMBEDKAR –“The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.â€
  • BR AMBEDKAR –“Unlike a drop of water, which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.â€
  • BRAD ARROWSMITH –“Boundaries don’t protect rivers, people do.â€
  • BRAD PITT –“The three terrible karmas are beauty, wealth and fame. They’re the things that stop you from finding true happiness.â€
  • BRAIN ALDISS –“Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.â€
  • BRAIN TRACY –“Look for the good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.â€
  • BRANCH CABELL-“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.â€
  • BRANDI SNYDER –“ To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRENDA UELAND –“Since you are like no other being created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.â€Â Â Â      
  • BRENDA UELAND –“So you see, imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling    and puttering.â€
  • BRENDA UELAND –“We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very well true, and serious.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRET NICHOLAUS AND PAUL LOWRIE –“Get away from the city lights and take some time to look at the stars as they appear out in the country. Consider how small your problems really are as you ponder the expanse of the universe.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRET NICHOLAUS AND PAUL LOWRIE –“Try something you once vowed you would never be willing to do.â€Â Â 
  • BRHADARANYAKA –“The god of rain in truth is a sacrificial fire; its fuel is the year, the clouds are its smoke, lightning is its flame, the thunderbolt its coals, thunder its sparks. In this fire the gods offer King Soma. From that offering rises rain.â€
  • BRHDARANYAKA UPANISHAD –“The Self is the honey of all beings and all beings are honey for the Self. As the one wind, once entered into a house, Takes on the forms of all that is in it, So the One inmost Self of every being Takes on their several forms (remaining) without (the while).â€
  • BRIAN BATES –“We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one “flew” to these Other worlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.â€Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BRIAN BIRO –“Teamwork is less “ego” and more “we go!â€
  • BRIAN LARA –“ I’ve had my ups and downs but I’ve stuck it out… mental strength is important… It’s testimony to the longevity I’ve had in the game.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BRIAN LARA –“I’ve always wanted to be one of the top cricketers in the world and I wouldn’t want to be in any other situation. I’ve worked hard and given myself to the game, and this is the result.â€
  • BRIAN LUKE SEAWARD –“Stressed is just desserts spelt backwards.â€
  • BRIAN TRACY –“I have found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more ^chances. Be more active. Show up more often.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BRIAN TRACY –“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BRIAN TRACY –“The predominant quality of successful people is optimism… Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BRIAN TRACY –“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever theâ€Â Â Â 
  • BRIAN W. ALDIS –“When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRIAN W. ALDISS- “When childhood dies, its corpses are called adult.â€
  • BRILLAT-SAVARIN-” Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.”
  • BRITNEY SPEARS –“You will never know happiness until you have been in love, and you will never understand what pain really is until you lose love.â€
  • BRITTANSGIRL –“To feel happy is to feel good about your self and smile a lot.â€Â Â 
  • BROOKE SHIELDS –“smoking kills. if you are killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BROOKS ATKINSON –“After each war, there is a little less democracy to save.â€
  • BROOKS ATKINSON –“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Life is growth and motion; a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BROOKS ROBINSON –“I’ll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear, A man can’t play games his whole life.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BROTHER LAWRENCE –“The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.â€
  • BRUCE BARTON –“When you re through changing, you’re through.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRUCE JENNER –“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability it was my mental ability.â€Â Â 
  • BRUCE LEE –“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this I great creative and spiritual force within me that I  is greater than faith, I greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined.â€Â 
  • BRUCE LEE –“Empty your mind, be formless… When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BRUCE LEE –“Flowing water never goes stale, so just keep flowing.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BRUCE OLDFIELD –“Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.â€Â Â 
  • BRUCE PATTERSON –“The sun in the morning. Like a protective mother she rises and brings warmth to everything she touches. Artists try to harness her beauty, scientists study to find her secrets. Every being feels more alive when she is there sad when she is shrouded by a cloud, She leaves each day with a promise to return that is never broken.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRUNSON Mc KINLEY –“Our choice lies in the policies we develop and pursue to channel migration into safe, orderly, humane and productive avenues.â€
  • BRUNSON Mc KINLEY –“The only million Indians living in the US accounts foe 0.1% of Indian population but earn the equivalent of 10% of India’s national income.â€
  • BRUYERE –“We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRYAN SINGER –“We don’t live in the world of reality; we live in the world of how we perceive reality.â€Â Â Â 
  • BRYANT- “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.â€
  • BRYON- “But grief should be the instructor of the wise.â€
  • BUCK RODGERS –“There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one’s maximum potential must be built on bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.â€Â Â 
  • BUCKMINSTER FULLER –“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.â€
  • BUCKMINSTER FULLER –“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.â€Â Â 
  • BUDD SCHULBERG –“Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BULLEH SHAH –“Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â     
  • BULLEH SHAH –“This transient world is neither thine nor mine; all is finite… Let us go 0 Mullah let us go then you and I to the kingdom of the blind; where none debates our caste, or creed, none respects us thus… Mullah and the torchbearer are both alike, professing to light the path for others, themselves dwell in darkness. Seek solace in silence; the world tolerates not him who utters truth, shows no magnanimity —nor suffers him who values truth, yet beloved is he who speaks the truth…â€
  • BULLHE SHAH –“Law says: Go to the mulla and learn the rules and regulations; Love says: One letter is enough, close your books and put them away. The place of Love is the highest heaven, the crown of creation; Out of love He has created Bullha, humble, and from dust.â€
  • BULWER –“Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.â€Â Â Â 
  • BULWER-LYTION –“When the people have, no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.â€Â 
  • BULWER-LYTTON –“If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.â€Â 
  • BULWER-LYTTON –“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the sincerity and truth accomplishes no victory without it.â€Â Â 
  • BULWER-LYTTON –“Three things are never silent- Thought, Destiny and the Grave.â€
  • BUMPER STICKER- “Be thankful only one of them can win.â€
  • BURKE –“When will young and inexperienced men learn caution and distrust of themselves?â€Â Â Â 
  • BURMESE PROVERB –“Ode to Family In time of test, family is best.â€Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BURNET, W.R. –“Crime is just a left handed from a human endavour.â€
  • BUSENBAUM, H –“When the end is lawful, the means are also lawful.â€
  • BUTLER:- “He that imposes an oath, makes it, not he that for convenience takes it ; Then how can any men be said To break an oath he never made?â€
  • BUZZ ALDRIN –“Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • BYLLYE AVERY –“Acceptance and awareness are the first stages of gaining the courage to change.â€Â Â 
  • BYLLYE AVERY –“Divinity is the special quality that makes us unique — our presence, our love, our creative energy, and the ways in which we transform our environment.â€Â Â Â 
  • BYRON –“And if I laugh at any mortal thing/ is that I may not weep.â€Â Â Â Â Â 
  • BYRON –“I may stand alone, but would not change my free thoughts for a throne.â€
  • BYRON KATLE –“Would you rather be right or free?â€Â Â Â 
  • C S LEWIS –“Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.â€Â Â 
  • C S LEWIS –“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.â€Â             
  • C. SCOTT –“The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it.â€Â Â 
  • C.A. OGLEUREN –“What is the joy of getting old if we are compelled to act young.â€Â Â 
  • C.A.BARTOL- “Hope is the parent of faith.â€
  • C.F.DOLE- “Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale that ever before.â€
  • C.G.JUNG –“A person is afraid of growing old to the extent that he is not really living now.â€Â Â Â 
  • C.H.SPERGEON-” A lie will go round world while truth is pulling its boots on.”
  • CABE RUTH –“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.â€
  • CAESAR- “In war events of impotence are the result of trivial causes.â€
  • CAJAL –“The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • CALVIN & HOBBES –“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CALVIN COOLIDGE –“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.â€
  • CALVIN COOLIDGE –“Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CALVIN COOLIDGE –“I have never had to explain something that U didn’t say.â€Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CALVIN COOLIDGE –“Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money It doesn’t appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CALVIN COOLIDGE –“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.â€
  • CALVIN COOUDGE –“One of the first things a President learns is that everything he says weighs a ton.â€Â Â Â 
  • CALVIN TRILION – “Marriage is not merely shaving the fettuccini, sharing the burden of finding the fettuccini restaurant in the first place.â€
  • CAMPBELL –“The patriot’s bloods’ seed of freedoms.â€
  • CARA VICHKO- “These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.â€
  • CAREY Me WILLIAMS –“Planned economy: Where everything is included in the plans except economy.â€Â Â 
  • CARL BUECHNER –“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.â€Â Â 
  • CARL G JUNG –“Any attempt to create a spiritual attitude by splitting off and suppressing the instincts is a falsification. Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.. Both (spirituality and sensuality) must live, each drawing life from the other.â€Â 
  • CARL JUNG –“ The shoes that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL JUNG –“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.â€Â Â 
  • CARL JUNG –“Conscious and unconscious are not necessarily in opposition to one another, but complement one another to form a totality, which is the Self.â€
  • CARL JUNG –“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.â€
  • CARL JUNG –“Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.â€
  • CARL JUNG –“God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all things which alter my plans and intentions, and change the course Of my life, for better or for worse.â€Â     
  • CARL JUNG –“It is only through the mystery of self-sacrifice that a man may find himself anew.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL JUNG –“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.â€Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL JUNG –“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.â€
  • CARL JUNG –“We can keep from a child all knowledge of previous myths but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.â€Â 
  • CARL JUNG –“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL JUNG –“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.â€
  • CARL MARX –“Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.â€
  • CARL MARX –“Reason has always existed. But not always in a reasonable form.â€
  • CARL MARX- “The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.â€
  • CARL ROGERS –“ When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I’m optimistic.â€
  • CARL SAGAN –“But we have also acquired compassion for others, love for our children and our children’s children, a desire to learn from history, and a great soaring passionate intelligence — the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity.â€Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“If only a network of canals existed (on Mars) the habitability of Mars would become plausible… Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred, and there are few notions more stirring than the idea of a neighbouring planet inhabited by intelligent beings.â€
  • CARL SAGAN –“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“If you want to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.â€Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without It We Go Nowhere.â€Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinism are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.â€
  • CARL SAGAN –“There is, we’re told, an infinite hierarchy of universes…an idea that surpasses the endless number of infinitely old cycling universes in Hindu cosmology.. To enter them, we would somehow have to penetrate a fourth physical dimension.â€Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“We are the children equally of the sky and the Earth. In our tenure on this planet we have accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage, hereditary propensities for aggression, submission to leaders and hostility to outsiders, which place our survival in some question.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our vision and understanding and prospects are bound exclusively to the Earth — or worse, to one small part of it.â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
  • CARL SAGAN –“You have to know the past to understand the present.â€
  • CARL SANDBURG –“”How do you do, my farmer friend?” “Howdy.” “Nice looking country you have here.” “For them that likes it.” “Live here all your life?” “Not yet.”
  • CARL SANDBURG –“Something began me And it had no beginning; Something will end me And it has no end.â€Â Â 
  • CARL SANDBURG –“The Sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.â€Â 
  • CARL SANDBURG –“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.â€Â Â Â 
  • CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ- “All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.â€
  • CARLOS CASTANEDA –“Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart?â€Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 

CARLOS CASTANEDA –“You must push yourself beyond your limits, all the time.â€Â Â 

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