Bassui Tokusho Quotes
Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
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You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.
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From Lee, a dramatist: Ah! the poet hath no true hope, who doth not place it in the many, and in the feeling of the common multitude.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.
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I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.
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I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
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I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.
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If I can see the sunrise - and I usually don't - I like to. I'm a big fan of the sun.
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My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.
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Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens.
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Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.
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Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.
