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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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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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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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
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I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short cuts.
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There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.
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I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
