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      "Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed."
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      Quote Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia View Post
      I have searched again, I have multiple sources saying it originated as chinese/buddhist proverb.
      That's because it's a joke about them burning themselves as a form of silent, epic protest, they wouldn't have actually said it.

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      Are you kidding me? Just be? That's what you are right now of every single second of your entire life. That is "Be". What a shitty answer, i hope you got your money back.
      When the old master Hiakajo was asked 'What is Zen?' he said 'When hungry, eat, when tired, sleep,' and they said, 'Well isn't that what everybody does? Aren't you just like ordinary people?' 'Oh no,' he said, 'they don't do anything of the kind. When they're hungry, they don't just eat, they think of all sorts of things. When they're tired, they don't just sleep, but dream all sorts of dreams.' - Hiakajo Roshi or Po-Chang

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      Quote Originally Posted by tommo View Post
      That's because it's a joke about them burning themselves as a form of silent, epic protest, they wouldn't have actually said it.
      I was talking about "give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he eats for a life time" was a chinese/buddhist proverb.

      Of course it's a joke (The fire one), I thought it was a fun one
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      "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

      ~ Lao Tzu

      Very simply and hard hitting.
      The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. ~ Buddha

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      "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
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      "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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      "You see seniorita, mystery is important. To know everything, to know the whole truth is dull. There is no magic in that. Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about what and how and where." - Ragnar Třrnquist, through his character "Cortez the Red".
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      "It is better to be silent and be thought of as a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." -A. Lincoln

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      "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
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      Here's an oldie: "A closed mouth gathers no foot."

      "It's easier to build a boy than mend a man."

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      "Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine."

      Insert: (can be simpler) imo

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      "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
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      "dissent is the highest form of patriotism"
      - Thomas Jefferson


      here's a long one, but something I found very interesting:
      "The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people. "Shut him up, I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry! Look at my big bank account and my family this has to be real!" It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys that try and tell us that, you ever notice that? Then let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter. Cause it's just a ride, and we can change it whenever we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a choice right now. Between fear and love.
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      The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad
      Bollocks.

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      cpl more good ones

      For sure Supernova... the ego does have a lot invested in "the ride." - it's very survival.

      Delphinus - Maybe we would like to believe it is from a supernatural source because we do not want to believe it resides in us??.




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      My mom just bought me a t-shirt with a roller coaster on it and I've been thinking about writing It's Just A Ride on it. Strange you would post that.

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      yep a ride of ups and downs....just like a roller coaster

      A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."
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      Max's sheep theory

      You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. Max Beerbohm

      tried really hard to find a widely accepted explaination of what Max B is on about there, lots of people quote this and say nothing else, even google doesnt know!!! :-)from his other stuff i can guess that its maybe to do with comparing humans behaviour to herd mentality and the standing on the hind legs may have something to do with sheep being used to get wool. I tried allsorts of search combo's of keywords in google with nothing but cleverdicks quoting but not discussing

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      He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
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