"But when no risk is taken there is……" — Alan Watts
"But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not…
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
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If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no…
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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the…
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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of…
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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its…
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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
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We usually don't look. We overlook.
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I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at…
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"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly…
— John Waters
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It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
— C.S. Lewis
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People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people…
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny…
— Lyndon LaRouche
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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
— George Takei
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The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves.…
— Thomas Sowell
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We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to…
— Sonny Perdue
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Busy people are never busybodies.
— Ethel Mumford
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Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.
— Martin O'Malley
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Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word…
— Thomas Sowell
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Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for…
— Pablo Picasso
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