Ajahn Chah Quotes
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
Ajahn Chah
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I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
Inbee Park
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
Gail Kelly
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.
Daniel Adair
Nickelback
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Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
Albert Einstein
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When you start to meet with ordinary people you understand that a Russian person, really any person from Russia, a Tatar, a Mordvin, a Chechen, a Dagestani, they are very open people, even a little naive. But there's one defining trait that probably all peoples have, although it comes out especially strongly in us. That's a drive toward fairness. It's one of the dominating, I think, traits in the mentality of a person from Russia, a Russian person.
Vladimir Putin
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The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Homer
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I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?
Kacey Musgraves
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
Ajahn Chah
