"As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure"

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Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Martin Savidge, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2011.

Lisa Ling

#Insecure Quotes #Culture Quotes

“You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.”
“No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e.g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?”
“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.”
“My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.”
“Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”
“Don't think I'm not incoheret.”
“As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who would work out with me: my dogs. As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running.”
“According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable. THe believer in the creation of life by God may be astonished at this reply. But if you were to ask him 'What is the beginning of God?' he would answer without hesitation 'God has no beginning', and he is not astonished at his own reply.”

Source : Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.32, Oneworld Publications

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