Hakuin Ekaku Quotes
At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
Quotes to Explore
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Time was God's first creation.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.
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The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful society. This narrative is so devoid of historical context that it should embarrass anyone beyond a second-grade education.
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There is a huge market for products and services aimed at what I like to call the Pocketbook Environmentalist: a shopper who's savvy enough to know things don't necessarily have to cost more just because they're good for the environment.
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I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.
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At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
