Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
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Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
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The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
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Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.
