Franz Kafka Quotes
'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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This love is silent.
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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To me, my business is my life.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story.
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It's weird, but everything I've envisioned so far has come true, which is amazing.
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Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
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Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.
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'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'
