Dainin Katagiri Quotes
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.
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My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
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I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.
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I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.
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However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
