Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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 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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My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.
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I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
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What an incredibly proud moment as a Canadian to have the Canadian flag on the left shoulder of your space suit, looking at the Canadian logos on the robotic arm in the payload bay of the space shuttle, and there's the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, which was an extension of the Canadarm to inspect the tiles underneath the orbiter. It struck me that there were more Canadian logos in space than any other country's I saw.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
