Gautama Buddha Quotes
When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.
Gautama Buddha
Quotes to Explore
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
Vaclav Havel
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As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
Ann Druyan
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Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.
Pablo Neruda
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Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one.
Rachel Cohn
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Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.
William Shakespeare
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Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
William Franklin Beedle Jr.
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
Andre Bazin
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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
Zadie Smith
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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
Benjamin Cardozo
