Gurcharan Das Quotes

#1. When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

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#2. We must begin to make what I call 'conscious choices', and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

John Denver

#3. I never caught on to being a bully.

Nick Nolte

#4. When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

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#5. As long as you are following God's will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline? How many whales do you suppose God will deign send to swallow you? When does God run out of whales?

Brian Evenson

#6. I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.

Glenn Beck

#7. Yudhishthira answers Yaksha's question - what is man? by saying, 'The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.

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#8. One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. - Mahabharata XVIII.113.8

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#9. All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Heather King

#10. Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

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#11. When you fall, be there to catch you, I will.

Sean Stewart

#12. Break free from the chains which shackle each soul through the binding links of fear, greed and indifference?

Bryant McGill

#13. Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.

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#14. A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before?

Wang Wei

#15. Claire:dont do anything dumb or ill kill you myself
shane:ouch girl whatever happend to unconditional love around here

Rachel Caine

#16. Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter to make a person yearn for a calm, green spot. Then you need a first-class park,

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#17. Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. - JAMI, BAHARISTAN

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#18. Its own position veers towards the pragmatic evolutionary principle of reciprocal altruism: adopt a friendly face to the world but do not allow yourself to be exploited.

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#19. I see," he said," the mountain will never be brought to Mahomet, so all you can do is to aid Mahomet to go to the mountain ...

Charlotte Bronte

#20. Harry took Malfoy's Shrivelfig as Ron set about trying to repair the damage to the roots he now had to use. Harry skinned the Shrivelfig as fast as he could and flung it back across the table at Malfoy without speaking. Malfoy was smirking more broadly than ever.

J.K. Rowling

#21. None of us are saints. We can all do better.

Marie Lu

#22. What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?

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#23. Carving out our own place, making something out of nothing. It feels as right as it doesn't and I think maybe I was wrong. We can't have exactly everything we lost. But maybe we can come close.

Courtney Summers

#24. Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma

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#25. The university campus was in the old part of town. The combination of water and stone creates a special, majestic atmosphere there. It's hard to be a sluggard under those circumstances, but I managed.

Sergei Dovlatov

#26. I almost hit on every women that I like. It's not about being a flirt, it's about living the way how I wish to be.

Myself

#27. Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.

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#28. By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.

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