Gautama Buddha Quotes
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Gautama Buddha
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
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I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.
Maika Monroe
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
FKA twigs
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
Gabriela Mistral
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The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.
Irving Fisher
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Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
J. C. Ryle
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For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
Saint Augustine
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...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
Pablo Picasso
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Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.
Madeleine de Souvre
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur Ashe
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
Wanda Sykes
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Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.
Bronislaw Malinowski
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
Seneca the Younger
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Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers who play on a par with a master. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.
Emanuel Lasker
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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
Rudyard Kipling
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
Gautama Buddha
