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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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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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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People said I didn't deserve to be World Champion, but I think I've proved it.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.
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I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
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To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
