Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre -
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Basmah bint Saud -
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
Oliver St. John -
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
Samantha Harvey -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
Zach LaVine
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman -
My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
J. J. Watt -
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Vernon Jordan -
But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
Daniel Dennett
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The way you wear your hat,The way you sip your tea,The mem'ry of all that –No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Ira Gershwin -
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
Aldous Huxley -
Bloodshed kept pace with iron production: in essence, the entire paleotechnic period was ruled, from beginning to end, by the policy of blood and iron. The brutal contempt for life was equalled only by the the almost priestly ritual it developed for inflicting death. Its 'peace' was indeed the peace that passeth understanding: what was it but latent warfare.
Lewis Mumford -
Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon -
One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.
Brené Brown
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I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.
Sia LSD -
We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast enough to figure these answers out on our own, but we can do it through artificial intelligence. But there's also some very scary downsides that could come if we don't put the right safety precautions in there.
M. Shadows -
My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
John Hughes -
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
Jim Lehrer -
I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.
Philip Glass -
The secret of life is... everything is out of control.
Ajahn Brahm