C.D. Payne famous quotes
03-28-2025
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I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
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Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
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Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.
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Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.
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Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?
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One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.
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I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.'No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.
-- C.D. Payne
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.
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Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.
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When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.
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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.
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