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| An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. |
Buddha |
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| He is able who thinks he is able. |
Buddha |
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| Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. |
Buddha |
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| Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. |
Buddha |
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| Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. |
Buddha |
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| Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. |
Buddha |
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| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. |
Buddha |
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| You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. |
Buddha |
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| Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. |
Buddha |
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| Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. |
Buddha |
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| Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. |
Buddha |
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| Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. |
Buddha |
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| Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide. |
Buddha |
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| Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. |
Buddha |
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| He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes. |
Buddha |
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| It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. |
Buddha |
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| On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. |
Buddha |
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| Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. |
Buddha |
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| Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned. |
Buddha |
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| To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. |
Buddha |
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| To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. |
Buddha |
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| Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. |
Buddha |
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| We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think. |
Buddha |
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| You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together. |
Buddha |
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| Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. |
Buddha |
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| The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. |
Buddha |
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| Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. |
Buddha |
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| Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. |
Buddha |
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| Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed. |
Buddha |
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| Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. |
Buddha |
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| On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property. |
Buddha |
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| Everything changes, nothing remains without change. |
Buddha |
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| If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. |
Buddha |
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| If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. |
Buddha |
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| A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. |
Thomas Mann |
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| A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. |
Thomas Mann |
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| The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life. |
Thomas Mann |
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| We don't love qualities, we love persons sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. |
Thomas Mann |
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| As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. |
Thomas Mann |
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| I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know where I would be without it. |
Thomas Mann |
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| It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. |
Thomas Mann |
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| This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. |
Thomas Mann |
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| If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. |
Thomas Mann |
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| It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. |
Thomas Mann |
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| A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. |
Thomas Mann |
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| When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Never fight an inanimate object. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life. |
P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. |
Marcus Aurelius |
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| How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. |
Marcus Aurelius |
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| The hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world. |
W.R. Wallace |
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| Tommy If I wanted a kiss I'd call your mother. |
Tommy Boy |
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| Tommy Richard, who's your favorite little rascal Alfalfa or is it Spanky |
Tommy Boy |
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| Tommy Fat guy in a little coat. |
Tommy Boy |
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| Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin. |
Tommy Boy |
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| Richard It's called reading-top to bottom-left to right-group words together into sentences-take tylenol for any headaches-midol for any cramps. |
Tommy Boy |
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| Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it |
Tommy Boy |
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| Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. Richard I know, they're called doctors. |
Tommy Boy |
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| Richard Okay... seatbelts. Just put the little thing into the big thing and... I tell ya what. If you don't know how to fasten your seatbelt, just raise your hand and I'll have Tommy Boy here come back there and hit you in the head with a tack hammer because you're a RETARD |
Tommy Boy |
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| Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. |
Otto von Bismark |
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| When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. |
Otto von Bismark |
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| Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. |
Otto von Bismark |
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| A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. |
Otto von Bismark |
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| The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. |
Rupert Murdoch |
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| Magneto You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different. |
X2 X-Men United |
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| Nightcrawler You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes. |
X2 X-Men United |
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| Jean Grey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home... they marry the good guy. |
X2 X-Men United |
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| Mrs. Madeline Drake This is all my fault. Pyro Actually they discovered that it's the male who carries the mutant gene and passes it on so, it's his fault. |
X2 X-Men United |
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| Jean Grey Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow and normally taking thousands and thousands of years. But every few hundred millennia, evolution leaps forward. |
X2 X-Men United |
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| Pyro You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news - I'm the worst one. |
X2 X-Men United |
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| I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. |
Ben Johnson |
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| Talking and eloquence are not the same to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. |
Ben Johnson |
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| Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. |
Ben Johnson |
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| Justice delayed is justice denied. |
William Gladstone |
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| The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. |
William Gladstone |
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| We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. |
William Gladstone |
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| You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you. |
Edward Steichen |
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| When your work speaks for itself, dont interrupt. |
Henry J. Kaiser |
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| Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. |
Henry J. Kaiser |
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| Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. |
Henry J. Kaiser |
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| Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. |
Andr Dubus |
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| Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. |
John Andrew Holmes |
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| The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent. |
John Andrew Holmes |
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| There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. |
John Andrew Holmes |
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| It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. |
John Andrew Holmes |
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| A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. |
John Andrew Holmes |
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