Kublai Khan Quotes
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
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Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.
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A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.
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Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
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If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.
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Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
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If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
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In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.
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closed my eyes and listened. It was like music I'd heard all my life, even more than "This Lullaby." All those keystrokes, all those letters, so many words. I brushed my fingers over the beads and watched as her image rippled, like it was on water, breaking apart gently and shimmering before becoming whole again.
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Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
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I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
