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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
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Get mad, then get over it.
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It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.
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Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.
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The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.
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For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are not closed or bounded - which, politically, lays the ground for critiques of exclusivity. Second, places are not 'given' - they are always in open-ended process. They are in that sense 'events'. Third, they and their identity will always be contested (we could almost talk about local-level struggles for hegemony).
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I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
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The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They are thinkers.
