"A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure."

-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.”
“At first I was very anxious about starting Twitter, because I didn't really know what was expected of me. I now feel fairly relaxed, in that's it a way of telling people things that you are doing, without any attempt to be entertaining. To me, even funny people who are tweeting, it just gives a glib impression. You know that it's been constructed, that it's not a thing that's just happened in that moment. So whatever you read, the best you get is, "Eh."”

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“For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.”
“It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.”
“To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us--in freedom and with no strings attached--is a way to grant others a liberating gift.”
“The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.”
“The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, weâ€™re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, weâ€™ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.”
“The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.”

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