Du Fu Quotes
Within the vermilion gate, meats and wines go to wasteWhile on the roadside lie the frozen bodies of the poor.
Quotes to Explore
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I love working with women.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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The course of development
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Part 1, Ch. 2
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When you stop selecting by ability you have to select according to some other inevitably less satisfactory criterion.
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I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
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It appears to be monumental only because it's art.
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I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
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I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'
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Immortality... Is that a super power?
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America does not always need to be the world's bodyguard.
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Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.
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Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock - but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.
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Within the vermilion gate, meats and wines go to wasteWhile on the roadside lie the frozen bodies of the poor.
