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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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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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 commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.
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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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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
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I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
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You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.
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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
