Hakuun Yasutani Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hakuun Yasutani 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taya Kyle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're not looking at banning all weapons. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gary Ackerman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				L. E. Modesitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karen Allen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oliver Goldsmith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ted Deutch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Elliott Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Olly Murs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. P. Kinsella 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fyodor Dostoevsky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hakuun Yasutani