Gautama Buddha Quotes

By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

Gautama Buddha

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• Acknowledge
• Correct
• Forgives

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• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

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• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

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• For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.

  

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• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

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• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

  

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• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

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• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  

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  • Up
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• Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

  

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• The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

  

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• The deepest feminine yearning is to achieve a loving union which, in its development, validates this maturation and simultaneously stimulates and furthers the desire for perfection in others.

  

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  • Desire

• The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the mound of 'I' to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

  

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  • God
  • Important
  • Tears

• Goldsmith, however, was a man who whatever he wrote, did it better than any other man could do.

  

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• Extortion, snortin, supportin abortion, pathological liar, blowin shit out of proportion, the looniest, zaniest, spontaneous, sporadic, impulsive thinker, compulsive drinker, addict, half animal, half man, dumpin your dead body inside of a fuckin trash can, with more holes than an Afghan

  

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• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

  

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• Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

  

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• I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law.

  

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• By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wise
  • Acknowledge
  • Correct