Gautama Buddha Quotes
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
Gautama Buddha
Quotes to Explore
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
Sam Donaldson
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
Larry Wilcox
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Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.
Inga Muscio
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I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!
Idina Menzel
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William James
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I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.
Isaac Newton
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I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
Neve Campbell
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... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.
Plutarch
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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
Jane Austen
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
Adam Mansbach