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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by collyw on Thursday April 23, 2015 @05:50AM (#9425677)
The Dali Lama has some wonderful quotes around such subjects:

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. Then he is so anxious about the future that he doesn't enjoy the present: the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by kristofferR on Thursday April 23, 2015 @09:38AM (#9426548)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama#...

"Often attributed to the Dalai Lama, or as author shanx dee, this appears to be a loose adaptation of the work of Jim Brown, published by Reata Strickland as An Interview with God (ISBN 0743229576)."

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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by collyw on Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:18AM (#9426805)
fair enough, I have seen it attributed to the Dali Lama many times
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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by klodolph on Thursday April 23, 2015 @06:40AM (#9425813)
This is an incorrect attribution. There is no record of the Dailai Lama saying that. Nor does it sound—even vaguely—like something he would say.
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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by Luc on Thursday April 23, 2015 @06:07AM (#9425719)
Well that is pretty judgmental, and doesn't sound like something the Dalai Lama would say.

At least it's not a supposed Einstein quote for a change...

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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by pavlov on Thursday April 23, 2015 @06:43AM (#9425830)
Why do you feel it's judgemental?

I read it as saying "there are people like this", which is certainly true in my opinion.

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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by Luc on Thursday April 23, 2015 @06:55AM (#9425865)
'Man' is mankind, so all of humanity.

Anyway, Wikiquote concurs with my feeling about it being misattributed: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama#...

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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by agumonkey on Thursday April 23, 2015 @06:07AM (#9425721)
I think Cartesianism is also linked to that. By optimizing desintegrated parts (of life) we miss the big picture.
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Re:Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (2013) by steamy on Thursday April 23, 2015 @06:02AM (#9425706)
You should thank capitalism for this.
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