Nyanaponika Thera Quotes
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.
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I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.
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Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.
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Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
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We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.
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Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.
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Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
