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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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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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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I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you're a storyteller, too.
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I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet.
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Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
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Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
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The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
