Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
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I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'
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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
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While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
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Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
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Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
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When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn't want nobody to take care of.
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For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.
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I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.
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Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway.
