Gelek Rimpoche Quotes
The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.
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When you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn’t get the job, it’s easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who’ve tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn’t a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.
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They told me that you may not come, but I knew you'd come.
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The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.
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The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.
