Bernie Glassman Quotes
The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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I can always go back to education.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.
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The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
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There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
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Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover.It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Mindfulness is about observation without criticism; being compassionate with yourself.
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Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.
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If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
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By contrast, poll taxes were very effective in excluding blacks, as well as impacting many poor whites; in legal parlance, they were overly inclusive but nevertheless served their intended discriminatory purpose. This [Muslim ban] is fundamentally not the case here.
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The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.
