Akong Rinpoche Quotes
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In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
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If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.
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During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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Music will save the world.
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The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
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...'world peace' imposed by a dominant power assisted by a few partners is unlikely... only world peace driven by a recognition of the threat to everyone's survival is the most likely source of salvation...
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In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
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And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
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The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.
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To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
