Ajahn Chah Quotes
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
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(Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them.'
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He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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Don’t say: 'They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’' but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
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Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others.
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My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
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We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
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Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
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of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.
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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
