Ajahn Chah Quotes
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
Ajahn Chah
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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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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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.
Daniel Everett
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
Kabir Bedi
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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.
Patrick Roy
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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.
Hari Kondabolu
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When you make a promise, keep it.
Zig Ziglar
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I've done some films that, on paper, were really interesting and special. And for some reason, when they got on screen, it just didn't work. Well, I didn't get to watch the film before I decided to do it.
James Marsden
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We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
Origen
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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
Oscar Wilde
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The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.
C. S. Lewis
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
Ajahn Chah
