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Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness… — Pema Chodron
Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the… — Dalai Lama
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. — B.K.S. Iyengar
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — Noam Chomsky
Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling. — Andy Hargreaves
Food, clothing and shelter â€” these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception. — U.G. Krishnamurti
Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that… — R.J. Rushdoony
UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists. — Carol Bellamy
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life… — Aron Ralston
The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields. — Noah Webster
First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the… — Bjarne Stroustrup
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer — Bjarne Stroustrup
The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky… — Will Christopher Baer
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its… — Dennis Etchison
There is one principle that should never be abandoned, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This… — Alois Podhajsky
Whenever a horse has learned a new movement or a new aid in its basic form, the rider should give him a break and deliberately… — Reiner Klimke
The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to… — Sylvia Boorstein
Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one… — Judith Stone
Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore… — Ashly Lorenzana

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