Hans Bender Quotes
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.
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I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.
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I still see Prince George as my nephew, and I just want to be the best uncle possible.
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Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
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A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.
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I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.
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The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.
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Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
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All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.
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I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.
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When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.
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Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.
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Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
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The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.
