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Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
No-thought means to view all dharmas with a mind undefiled by attachment. When the mind is undefiled by attachment, dharmas are empty. If dharmas are empty, then why must you get attached to your bad habits and weaknesses?
Circumstances | Sincerity | Study |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
Parents are living Buddhas right in your own home, so don't neglect what is near to seek afar.
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The only way we can influence people is to set a good example for them and win their respect for our integrity and values.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Man | Meaning | Sound | Understanding |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
With Saddam rattled, now is the time to really rattle his cage: Turn up the volume on Radio Free Iraq to extra loud and call for his ouster 24 hours a day: ”All Saddam, all the time.” Take steps to have Saddam declared a war criminal by the U.N. Blow up a different power station in Iraq every week, so no one knows when the lights will go off or who’s in charge. Offer a reward for removing Saddam from office. Use every provocation by Saddam to blow up another Iraqi general’s home.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
It’s when you’re safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Giving | Pain | Understanding |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
God | Understanding | Wants | God | Happiness |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Art | Literature | Man | Obligation | Right | Sense | Spirit | Study | Will | Instruction | Art | Leadership |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
It is... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.
Despise | Learning | Seclusion | Society | Study | Society |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
Nations | Sympathy | Understanding |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Method | Science | Understanding |
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.
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Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus; home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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But all the story of the night told over, and their minds transfigur'd so together, more witnesseth than fancy's images, and grows to something of great constancy, but howsoever strange, and admirable. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act v, Scene 1
Come on, poor babe, some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens to be thy nurses. Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savageness aside, have done like offices of pity.
Common Sense | Sense | Study | Will |