Ajahn Chah Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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I hate touchy-feely things.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
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I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music. More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
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Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
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I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
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I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
