George Ohsawa Quotes
Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.
Quotes to Explore
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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You love who you love, and I can't help that I like guys.
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
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When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
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I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write about. A journal is a great source of story starters.
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Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
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The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
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Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.
