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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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.
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This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.
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Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.
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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.
