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Always remember, child,' her first teacher had impressed on her, 'that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.
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Men don't apologize to ladies. Whatever they do is correct.
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Karma es el principio del conocimiento. Despues, esta la paciencia. La paciencia es muy importante. Los pacientes son fuertes, Anjin-san. Paciencia significa dominar nuestra inclinacion hacia las siete emociones: odio, adoracion, gozo, ansiedad, irritacion, dolor y miedo. Si las resistes, eres paciente, y pronto comprenderas todas las cosas y estaras en armonia con la Eternidad.>>
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Be thou of Zen. Remember, in tranquillity, that the Absolute, the Tao, is within thee, that no priest or cult or dogma or book or saying or teaching or teacher stands between Thou and It. Know that Good and Evil are irrelevant, I and Thou irrelevant, Inside and Outside irrelevant as are Life and Death. Enter into the Sphere where there is no fear of death nor hope of afterlife, where thou art free of the impediments of life or the needs of ..
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He took a deep breath of air. Once again he caught a strangeness on the wind, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither odor nor perfume--just strange, and curiously exciting. "Superintendent, what's that smell? Casey noticed it too, the moment Sven opened the door." Armstrong hesitated. Then he smiled. "That's Hong Kong's very own, Mr. Bartlett. It's money."
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I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don't like a lot of what I see nowadays.
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In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.
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Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
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Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader
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man
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time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.
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Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?
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money
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If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.
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Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.
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shchom se doveriavash na niakogo i go naemash zaradi uma mu, dai mu v'zmozhnost da deistva. Inache zashcho sa ti khora, deto samo izp'lniavat zapovedi i si naliagat partsalite.
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Let's piss on the bargain.
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Otnovo s'm khvanat na tiasno. Kakvoto i da pravia, niakoi vse shche umre. A ako ne naucha ezika vi, tsialo edno selo shche zagine. Ne pravia li kakvoto iskate ot men, vse niakoi nevinen umira. Ne vizhdam izkhod. - Izkhod't e lesen, Andzhin-san. Umrete. Ne ste dl'zhen da ponasiate neponosimoto.
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Tomorrow does not exist. There is only .
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tomorrow
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Trupul nu-i decat o biata coliba pierduta in pustie.
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shogun
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It's only Christian to be chivalrous to your enemies.
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The word of God surpasses earthly orders.
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Ce minunat, ce minunat de simplu e sa poti spune ca dragostea te aduce aproape de Dumnezeu.
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My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks." The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick."
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reminding himself to remember forever that the pen's a long arm from the grave.
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Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, neh? Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient.
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Always remember, child,' her first teacher had impressed on her, 'that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline--training--is about. So train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes, the touch of this silk, tender raindrops against the shoji..
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Patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.
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Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.
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did. But he was glad her head was deep in his shoulder greatcoat. Again he craned around and caught sight of it, slightly aft and lying flat in the water, now seeming to
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Godrot opium, he thought. But he knew that his life was inexorably tied to opium--and that without it neither The Noble House nor the British Empire could exist.
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Que son las nubes, si no un pretexto para el cielo? ?Que es la vida, si no una huida de la muerte?
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You live by the lash and you'll die by it.
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Isn't man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?
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Without trade the world will become what it was once--a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.
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There are seven emotions, neh? Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm
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Ronin were landless or masterless peasant-soldiers or samurai who, through dishonor or the loss of their masters, were forced to wander the land until some other lord would accept their services.
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dokato nakraia i te zapochvakha da se zarichat: "Ot utre tr'gvam redovno. Ot utre zapochvam da se podgotviam za onova, koeto iskam da b'da sled voinata. Niama vreme za gubene. Ot utre veche tr'gvam". No v Changi, kakto navsiak'de, s'shchestvuvashe samo dnes."
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The sky Scorched by the sun,
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The point is we both know life and understand death--and both believe treatment in hell and everywhere else depends on money.
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James Clavell |
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It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.
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Then, alone once more, he split himself into the three persons that all generals of the Church must simultaneously be. First, the anointed Peter, first Bishop of Christ, with all that that spiritually implied. Second, the militant guardian of the Church temporal with all that that implied. And last, just a simple man who believed the teachings of a simple man who was the Son of God.
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For the last time: 'The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami.
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The earth's round, like an orange, but this map is like its skin, cut off in ovals, north to south, laid flat and stretched a bit at the top and bottom. A Dutchman called Mercator invented the way to do this accurately twenty years ago. It's the first accurate world map.
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to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world." If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into the ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however,requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about. So, train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes..."
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positive-thoughts
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Mariko,san, it was your karma to die gloriously and live forever. Anjin-san, my friend, it is your karma never to leave this land. It is mine to be Shogun.
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