Walpola Rahula Quotes
It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.
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I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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I will run against anybody.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
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The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.
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We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'
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When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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How tell what remains ? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.
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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.
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Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.
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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
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The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.
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A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
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I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.
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It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.
