Gautama Buddha Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.
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One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
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The 'Lone Star' experience was tough at the time, but it really allowed me to look at things from a 3,000-foot high view. You can think something is the greatest thing in the world, but, as we know, anything can happen. It really taught me that I always want to make choices that I believe in artistically. No one can take that away from you.
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I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
