Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
David Sylvian
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ANDY WACHOWSKI It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
GROUCHO MARX Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.
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FRANK ZAPPA The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.
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MIKE DITKA oh, oh GreenHollyWood says with a smile and even and angry sounds like devil who comes from hell... ...
DEYTH BANGER When the ball isn't in my hands, I'm already scanning for where the next pass is going.
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DAVID CROSS Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?
KEN POIROT ...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO... . he isn't like this writer or actor or comedian... - YOU FUCKING LIAR.
DEYTH BANGER Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?
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SALMAN RUSHDIE Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the worl...
DAVID SUZUKI My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
VALERIE BERTINELLI One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.
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ROBERT M. PIRSIG Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
THICH NHAT HANH Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. ...
RAY BRADBURY Mind, no Mind. Buddha, no Buddha. Reach into the water and pull out a dry hand.
DAN BERNARDO All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon; and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer...
MASAHARU ANESAKI There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were the...
TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO Because zen teaches you like no other...
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
JAMES HANSEN Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
SAM WALTON Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
MARV LEVY Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
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DAVID BARRON This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We hav...
ALEXA VON TOBEL A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
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JESSE KELLERMAN America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas.
JOHN BURTON BRIMER We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't al...
HEIDI HAYES JACOBS True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.
CHARLES EISENSTEIN Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?
ADAM WEST An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNE There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
BOBBY ORR The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said f...
FRANK GRILLO Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There...
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T. SCOTT MCLEOD I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
TALIB KWELI The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
DAVID OGILVY Television isn't my career. Business is.
FRAN TARKENTON We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn...
KATHERINE DUNN Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
EDIE MCCLURG Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
PHILIP ROTH A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
MARCEL DUCHAMP A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of de...
FRANCES WRIGHT The self-refinery of Buddhism does not lie in the form of exercise. Not all people sitting in a lotu...
ZHANG JIANMIN'S Music isn't only a profession.
JOSE CARRERAS Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
AISHA TYLER Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.
LORETTA YOUNG Restarting a musical isn't free.
BEN SPRECHER Making comeback with dignity demands discipline,dedication & belief in self.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
SABRINA LLOYD That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn&...
ALICE COOPER A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or...
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DEYTH BANGER Okay... there isn't problem...!
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ELIZABETH JOAN SMITH Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
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ADAM MCKAY Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
JEFF BRIDGES Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
YVES SAINT LAURENT Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
JACK KINGSTON For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
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LARRY DAVID I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID