Confucius Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
Rand Paul -
Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
Zendaya
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
Adam Hamilton -
When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
Yoko Ono -
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter -
When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
Adam Grant -
By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
Jack Canfield -
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman -
Fate is written in the face.
Federico Fellini -
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
Adam Grant -
If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
Ian Mckellen -
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
Tadao Ando
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Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.
V. S. Pritchett -
I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.
Luis von Ahn -
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality
Daido Moriyama -
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
James Larkin -
Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.
Dalai Lama -
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
Confucius