Gautama Buddha Quotes
"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.
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The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.
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The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.
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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
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How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.
