Quotes
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Christopher Buckley

"Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism."

Source : "Let’s quit while we are behind". washingtonmonthly.com. October 1, 2006.

Christopher Buckley

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“The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.”
“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

Source : "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life". Book by B. Alan Wallace, 1993.
“The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.”
“I'm a fighter, not a quitter.”
“many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.”
“It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.”
“It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.”

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