"All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us."

-- Dick Pound

#Mean Quotes #Language Quotes #Preoccupation Quotes

“I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that.”
“Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.”

Source : Hee-Jin Kim (2010). “Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen”, p.3, SUNY Press
“There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.”
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
“At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.”
“Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.”
“So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.”
“If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.”

Source : Nathaniel Cotton (1800). “Poems by Nathaniel Cotton: With the Author's Life”, p.83

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