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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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
Alexander Alekhine
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I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
Placido Domingo
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Hatred is settled anger.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
K. Flay
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Cancer doesn't just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life... The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who's sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.
Jessica St. Clair
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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Akong Rinpoche
