Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.
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A man who does not fool himself seldom cares much about fooling others. But the man who claims to have seen a ghost wants everybody else to believe in ghosts.
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I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks...
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Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,Of base ambition and the urge to rule;That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.That I not call my brother to atone;Make chaste my heart and lend me from aboveThy fortitude, humility, and love.
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What beats me - it always does - is how a man can be so clever and yet be such a perfect fool.
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There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.
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It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
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My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.
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Certain developments in Russian politics and foreign policy in recent months have given us pause
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Fundamental science that may not achieve results must be supported at the state level.
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A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
