Buddha Quotes
Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.
Buddha. The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses Together with Its Commentaries. Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Wisdom Publications, 2017, p. 201.
Ingersoll was the Devil incarnate to most clerics of the time as he was an avowed atheist and a public figure who gave hundreds of speeches and lectures a year. Beecher, himself an intellectual giant also, admired this opponent and refused to participate in the rumors, lies and innuendo that most American clergy did.
Nixon was an excellent orator even in his first effort at politics. It was when Nixon used that skill to smear his opponents that the admiration of his opponents turned to resentment and eventually this and his lack of morality in politics led the American people to turn on him.
The president and some of his aids had watched the speech on television.
The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama or Buddha Shakyamuni) was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in what is now Nepal and India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE). He is revered as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism, and recognized by most Buddhist schools as the Enlightened One who is believed to have transcended Karma and escaped the cycle of birth and rebirth. He taught for around 45 years and built a large following, both monastic and lay. His teaching is based on his insight into duḥkha (typically translated as "suffering") and the end of dukkha—the state called Nibbāna or Nirvana.
