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I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
 
We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness.
 
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
 
The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.
 
The way we behave in public is often very different from the way we behave in private.
 
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
 
A beautiful woman is a paradise to the eyes and a curse to the purse.
 
It is not too much to say that in the extreme development the chance to reason of most men is destroyed, as rationality increases and its locus, its control, is moved from the individual to the big-scale organization.
 
When everything is done, the mornings are sad.
 
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
 
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
 
You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.
 
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
 
I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
 
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
 
Amazing the advances we make in science and the primitive uses we find for them.
 
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
 
Well done is better than well said.
 
The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.
 
I am less interested in tearing down the veil than in pointing to its presence.
 
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