Gautama Buddha Quotes
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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.
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My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
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You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
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Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
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It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.
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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
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Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.
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Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
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I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.
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Do us all a favor and toss your mouth overboard.
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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
