Way Quotes
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I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.
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I want to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experience, who have not just been in a big law firm and maybe clerked for a judge and then gotten on the bench, but, you know, maybe they tried some more cases, they actually understand what people are up against.
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I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
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Music to me is a way of communicating without words.I think music is second to only smell in its ability to transport you without you wanting to be transported. Like if you smell your ex boyfriend's cologne. Like somewhere in public you sort of flinch and look over your shoulder. You wonder if that person is around. Same thing happens with music. It's really influenced my life a lot, even in times when I didn't want it too. A song will affect you in such a cheesy corny way, but you are affected so deeply in the moment despite yourself.
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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.
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Non-cooperation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary cooperation based on mutual respect and trust.
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I did a project on immigration, which is something that has always been close to my heart. For me, immigration was the way to evolve, to make people better.
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Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.
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The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.
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People always say to me, Youre really attractive - in an unusual way. No one ever just says, Youre attractive.
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I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.
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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Where the determination is, the way can be found.
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Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
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In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.
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If future history is not to be just one damned thing after another in space, then what we really have to do is in some way overcome this linear experience of time that makes all existence a quest for something that will never be found.And philosophies such as Zen seem to hint that this is possible.
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America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
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I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.
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There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
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On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.
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The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.
