If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Martin Luther King Jr. believed in the power of nonviolence. That means to make peace between people, he believed it was necessary to become peaceful oneself. The purpose of nonviolence is not to avoid violence but to learn not to seek out violence.

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  3. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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  5. I am my world.

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