George Ohsawa Quotes
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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I love to be in front of big galleries.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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How easy for those who do not bulgeTo not overindulge!
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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While pride sometimes instills courage and perseverance in the pursuit of hazardous enterprises, it is always an evil counsellor in determining whether a proposed objective is expedient or not.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.
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No more will, no more soul, no more life!
