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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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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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.
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Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'
