Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
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There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly - it is incredible to other men.
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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
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We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.
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It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
