Wole Soyinka Quotes
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First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
Walpola Rahula
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A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
Elbridge Gerry
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Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.
Charles Duke
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Yoga ia a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are.
Erich Schiffmann
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I love language, and I love the failure of language.
Nate Lowman
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run; all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.
African Spir
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If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.
Erin Kelly
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If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.
Casey Affleck
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
Wole Soyinka
