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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The thing is not to leave unfinished business; make every day count.
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My mother was a pediatrician, and she kept busy hours. I learned from her you could pack a lot into the day. Every minute had to count, and multitasking was a given.
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I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.
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The man is ugly, the man is evil, and the man is in love. This is gonna be an American classic.
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The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
