"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."

Dalai Lama XIV, Tibetan Spiritual Leader

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"I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks."

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