D. T. Suzuki Quotes
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Say yes to everything.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?
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I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it's a great thing.
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If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.
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I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
