Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.
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Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.
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Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
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Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way.
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The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
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Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.
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Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.
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My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
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I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
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Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.
