Dalai Lama Quotes
Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
Quotes to Explore
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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If there is not a united policy, this mechanism will not work: it will collapse, and it will... undoubtedly be the end of Schengen, the return of national borders.
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I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.
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If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
