He who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that … - Shantideva

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The climate is nearing tipping points. Changes are beginning to appear and there is a potential for explosive changes, effects that would be irreversible, if we do not rapidly slow fossil-fuel emissions over the next few decades.

Shantideva

He who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that someone who doesn't get apart from fire can't avoid being burn.

Able, Burn, Fire, Rid, Suffering

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Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

Giving, Mystery, Place, Sacred

Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through. . . " Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished. '

Alas, Done, Procrastination, Swoop, Thought, Waiting

What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.

Benefit, Buddhas, Differences, Looks, Needs, Work

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

Arises, Cause, Causes, Conflict, Living, Ownership

Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

Boat, Mighty, Sleep, Sorrow, Take, Wisdom

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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

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James Hansen

Energy, Climate, Would Be, Tipping, Potential, Irreversible

Stephen Beal

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

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George Washington

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

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Rodney Mullen

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

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