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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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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The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.
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No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.
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The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
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Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.
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I am saddened that I have been linked with her politically... I have disagreed with her on every issue, from the bottom of my toes
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Keep advertising and advertising will keep you.
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I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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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.
