K. Pattabhi Jois Quotes
It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.
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If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!
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It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything.
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Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.
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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.
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If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
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I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
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If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.
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Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.
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Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.
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To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.
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My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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I thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.
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If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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You've got to make a decision: Are you going to go down with the situation, or are you going to focus and succeed? My dream...kept me going.
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We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.
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Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
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It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
