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To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.

~Anand Mahindra

Topics: Children Creates Education Enlightened Girl Liberal Mind Really Society Specifically

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Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

~Andrew Cohen

Topics: Change Enlightened Everybody Get Nobody Wants

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The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

~Anthony Kennedy

Topics: Course Enlightened False Free Free Society Lie Ordinary Rational Remedy Response Simple Simple Truth Society Speech True Truth Uninformed

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I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a convenient temporary solution... Israel will not be Czechoslovakia.

~Ariel Sharon

Topics: Call Convenient Decided Democracy Dreadful Enlightened European Free Free World Israel Leader Mistake Primarily Repeat Sacrifice Solution States Temporary United United States Western Will World

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We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

~Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Topics: Act Enlightened Hope Self-Interest Spirit Will World

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Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Away Course Democracy Enlightened Further Life Made Many Me Mentality Most My Life Over Roots Somali Steadily Taking Them Toward Transitions Western

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I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: About Christianity Church Church And State Enlightened Enough Just Knowledge Life Rest Separate Spirituality State Talk

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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

~Bainbridge Colby

Topics: America Citizenship Enlightened Founded Industrial Social Structure

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

~Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Acquiring Among Any Circumstances Conversations Easy Enlightened Every Every Man Heaven His Improvement Information Interests Leisure Man More Other Our People Perhaps Political Reads Respect Than Thoroughly Us

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As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.

~Bo Sanchez

Topics: Afford Back Because Call Enlightened Francis Generosity Go God Had Learned Lesson Loved Me Model Much Parents Poor Poverty Realized Simplicity Unlike

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