Akong Rinpoche Quotes
The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Akong Rinpoche
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
Felix Frankfurter
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Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
E. B. White
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I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.
Taliesin
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'Great-grandfather died under strange circumstances. He opened a vein in his bath.''I never knew baths had veins,' protested Gabrilowitsch.''I never knew his great-grandfather had a ba-' began Falcovsky derisively.
S. J. Perelman
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A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.
W. H. Auden
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
Khaled Hosseini
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Charles Lindbergh
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I want to be a chef, but I'm only a fat girl chef; like, I only like to make fat comfort food. I'm not, like, a healthy chef person.
Khloe Kardashian
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In my stand-up, I've always been loose. If there's a curtain onstage, I'll use that in my act. If there's a door, I'll use the door. I always like to use everything at my disposal, which makes each show a little different and a little more fun.
J. B. Smoove
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There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.
Carol Moseley Braun
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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Akong Rinpoche
