Zenkei Shibayama Quotes
True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.Zenkei Shibayama
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
Aaron Swartz -
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard -
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
D. H. Lawrence -
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
Yahoo Serious -
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
Warren Christopher -
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. Byatt -
Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
Pat Brown
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
E. L. James -
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
Cameron Russell -
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite -
Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
Sam Weller -
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Walter Hill
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If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Ideas... they have the power.
Napoleon Hill -
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Know your body, understand your mind, and embrace your spiritual path.
Kathy Freston -
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
Irvine Welsh -
True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.
Zenkei Shibayama