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 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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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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While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.
Chaka Fattah -
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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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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Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
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I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.
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I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader.
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Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, значит, всё позволено. … Без бога-то и без будущей жизни? Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать?
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One of my chores was to milk the cows, which meant getting up before dawn and going out to that cold dark barn. I didn't expect to make it all the way to the big leagues; I just had to get way from them damn cows.
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There's your Karma ripe as peaches.
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No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.
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If I'm forced to leave West Ham, it will be done according to the rules - the club will have its share of the cake.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway.
