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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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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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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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
