If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952

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There is a place where there is neither earth, nor air, nor fire, nor water, where there is no conciousness, nor space, nor void, nor perception. There is niether a coming nor a going, neither a standing still, nor a falling away, without being fixed, nor without moving, without basis. It is the end of suffuring.

-Buddhacarita

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