Ninian Smart Quotes
I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
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The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.
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All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
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They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
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If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
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Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
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As aromatic plants bestowNo spicy fragrance while they grow;But crush'd or trodden to the ground,Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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The gipsy tents are on the down,The gipsy girls are here;And it's O to be off and away from the townWith a gipsy for my dear!
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The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.
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I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
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No technique is possible when men are free. … Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being. … The individual must be fashioned by techniques … in order to wipe out the blots his personal determination introduces into the perfect design of the organization.
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There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
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God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.
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Moms and God generally get along pretty well.
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I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.
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I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.
