Ajahn Chah Quotes
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So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial amalgamation will produce some individuals whose features diverge from those commonly ascribed to the races of their ancestors.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
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I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
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We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
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When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
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My life is better with every year of living it.
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I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we're trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
