Saskya Pandita Quotes
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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Their crew for 'Arrow' is just one of the most wonderful crews that I've worked with. I know that actors say that all the time, and it sounds like trash coming out of my own mouth, but it's so true.
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
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Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.
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Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.
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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.
