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“If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut”
Source : "How To Live". Book by Simon Munnery, 2005.
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“Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.”
Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan
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“My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.”
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“Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.”
Source : 1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.
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“I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.”
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“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”
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“I like people who can't die in their bed.”
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“There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.”
