Dalai Lama Quotes
As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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I do not have very much office experience.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
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Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.
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Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.
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You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.
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As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.
