Will Tuttle Quotes

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

Will Tuttle

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• Compassion
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• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  

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• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

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• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

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• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

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• I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

  

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• I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

  

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• I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

  

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• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

  

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• I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

  

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• I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

  

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• 'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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• Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

  

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• The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
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• I'm nocturnal when it comes to recording - I'm just more creative at night.

  

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• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

  

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• In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

  

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• Much of what is being taught is the acceptance of a “kinder, gentler suffering” that does not question the unwholesome roots of systemic suffering and the structures that hold it in place. What is required is a new Dharma, a radical Dharma that deconstructs rather than amplifies the systems of suffering, that starves rather than fertilizes the soil of the conditions that the deep roots of societal suffering grow in.

  

  Angel Kyodo Williams
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• Whether you are Buddhist or not, whether you practice a religion or not, you have a mind, temporarily and all causes of happiness and suffering are in this mind.

  

  Garchen Rinpoche
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• The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the top rate then in 1913, was 7 percent. Woodrow Wilson had a big ceremony and said, "I'm delighted to be president at the creation of this popular new tax."

  

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• Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Suffering
  • Compassion
  • Capacity