Gautama Buddha Quotes
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they're in a different tax bracket. Or to the so-called clergymen giving their interpretation of God's word, and yet they're not rolling the same way in their own lives.
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Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
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Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
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I don't like politicians who vacillate.
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In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.
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The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.
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Deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
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This is just a great day for the American people. This is a great win for the American people.
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They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
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A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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This is an eye-opening experience, ... I think all members of Congress should come here.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
