Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.
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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
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Where there is change, there is happiness.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
