The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. - Aeschylus

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I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.

Aeschylus

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

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That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the next thing you know you're yelling or throwing something or hitting someone. At that time, begin to accept the fact that that's "enraged buddha. " If you feel jealous, that's "jealous buddha. " If you have indigestion, that's "buddha with heartburn. " If you're happy, "happy buddha"; if bored, "bored buddha. " In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.

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Anthony Bourdain

I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.

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Bernard DeVoto

The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.

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Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

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It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

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