Matthieu Ricard Quotes
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I have a great office.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I'm a people person. That's my bread and butter.
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One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.
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It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.
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A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.
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Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
