Taisen Deshimaru Quotes
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
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Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.
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The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister.
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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
