Ajahn Amaro Quotes
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I usually start my day with a light breakfast of fruit and eggs and take granola bars with me to eat after practice. Lunch and dinner usually consist of chicken over pasta or rice and beans.
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President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
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You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
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Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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…Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
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There is nothing like walking on the streets on a freezing cold day and hearing fans scream your name, then stopping to talk to those same fans. There is nothing like looking into the crowd at the Q and seeing over 20,000 people wearing wigs to match your hair. Those are feelings I will cherish for the rest of my life and never forget.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
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Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.
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That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.
