Zenkei Shibayama Quotes
Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, 'As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.'
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I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
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This goes to demonstrate the fact that John Howard established this inquiry in order to bring about his own absolution, not to bring about any form of accountability.
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
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There's no glory like those who save their country.
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
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In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.
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The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
