"Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance."
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"Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives."
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"For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space."
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"No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy."
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"Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness."
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"I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way."
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"Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best."
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"Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another."
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"I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow."
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"People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it."
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"There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps."
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"There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something."
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"When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!"
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"If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people."
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"When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ."
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"The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone."
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"Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people."
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"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people."
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"The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy."
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"Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job."
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