Bill Jay Quotes
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in the future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.
Quotes to Explore
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
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When sorrow is deepest...then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
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Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.
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Not creating delusions is enlightenment.
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We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
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The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
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For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
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It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
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Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.
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Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.
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Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.
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The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.
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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
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You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
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But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
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...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in the future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.
