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“Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.”
Source : Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing
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“It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.”
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“I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I will be the one to leave you.”
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“I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.”
Source : "Northern Ireland's arch-enemies declare peace" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2007.
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“Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.”
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
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“Michael Riley Burke who played [Ted] Bundy did a really good job. He does look like him too, so it does make it hard and there are aspects of it, of course, that are just terrifying.”
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“If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.”