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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Only when we live, walk, behave, and have our being altogether in our spirit, not in our natural man, are we in the kingdom of God and, in reality, are the kingdom of God.
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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My mum always wanted to send me to a music school, but we didn't really have the money. So even now, I'm not a technically good singer. If you asked me to sing a particular harmony, I wouldn't know how.
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If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.
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Buddhism, with its non-theistic framework, grounds its ethics, not on the notion of obedience, but on that of harmony.
