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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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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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
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I think a long-term TV show is probably not for me, but doing a few years of something could be interesting.
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Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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This historically has been an issue that both parties have run away from. For the first time, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in its platform are making this issue, about needing to do better as a country to take common sense steps to help prevent gun violence.
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For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.
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No more will, no more soul, no more life!
