"We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing."

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Source : Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.18, Penguin

Sakyong Mipham

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“The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.”
“We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he going to give us jobs-if the white man gives you anything-just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.”
“I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.”
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
“I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (2008). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.
“Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.”

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