Ajahn Chah Quotes
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
Ajahn Chah
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I will not plan on buying any kind of electronic textbook. If you pay for it, it should be yours. That's information open to you, especially if you're buying books for your major.
Ashley Johnson
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You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart
Stevie Wonder
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.
Lewis H. Lapham
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People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.
Angelina Jolie
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If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live
Pablo Neruda
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I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.
Elijah Wood
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The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
D. V. Ager
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Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
George Frideric Handel
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When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.
Richard Feynman