Akong Rinpoche Quotes
The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Akong Rinpoche
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The time is come when women must do something more than the 'domestic hearth,' which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
Florence Nightingale
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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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Self-plagiarism is style.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
Josiah Royce
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All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.
Carlos P. Romulo
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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Akong Rinpoche
