Gautama Buddha Quotes

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Gautama Buddha

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• I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

  

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• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

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• I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
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• I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

  

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• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
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• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

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• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

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• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
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• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

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• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

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• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.

  

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• I'm so blessed with my baby.  And I want the most normal life possible for him.  And I'll manage, I will create that.

  

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• This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

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• If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
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• I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

  

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• Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.

  

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• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Wisdom
  • Danger
  • Enemies

• It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

  

  Joshua Ferris
  • Ignorance
  • Silent
  • Awareness

• You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

  

  Newt Gingrich
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• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance
  • Choose