"One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!"

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Dalai Lama

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“The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.”
“Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Â Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the LonelinessÂ really begins. Â Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought. Â When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away. Â But it doesn't go away. Â So some of usÂ doÂ instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.”
“Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.”
“No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.”
“It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something we can never get away from, even in a civilization where we're controlled by robots. It's the basic relationship between mature people who represent paternal and maternal figures and young people. It's universal - it's part of human existence. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way if humans remain around.”

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“Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.”
“He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was at an utter loss to know what he should do during the rest of his life, whereat Augustus expressed his surprise that Alexander did not regard it as a greater task to set in order the empire which he had won than to win it.”
“My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.”

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