Gautama Buddha Quotes
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.
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I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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It's like a pylon.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.
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As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
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The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
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Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
