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“A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack”
Source : "What I've Learned: Snoop Dogg" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. July 14, 2008.
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“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”
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“You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”
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“We need realism to deal with reality.”
Source : "From the Vaults: Slick Rick, circa 98-99". Interview with Adisa Banjoko, allhiphop.com. March 1, 2005.
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“Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.”
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“One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.”
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“All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.”
Source : Bassui Tokusho (2013). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.112, Simon and Schuster
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“By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.”