Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.
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Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.
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Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so.
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
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There are so many people that put their heart in soul into making this record a reality.
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You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.
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I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.
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I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
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I would maintain that the buddhist world-view, with its recognition of the crucial role of the mind and the inconceivably vast dimensions of reality is much richer and more adequate to philosophical reflection than the flattened world-view bequeathed to us through a presumptuous misapplication of the scientific method beyond its legitimate domain.
