"Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances"
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"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."
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"Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God."
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"The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it."
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"The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword."
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"Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse."
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"Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project."
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"To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft."
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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."
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"Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own."
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"Return animosity with virtue."
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"... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this."
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"Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk."
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"And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe."
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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor."
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"To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return."
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"Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow."
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"Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines."
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"Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure."
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