Ajahn Chah Quotes
Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
