Jet Li Quotes
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
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In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.
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You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord.
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He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.
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Think of your work life therefore, not as separate from your spiritual life but as central to your spiritual life. Whatever your business, it is your ministry.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
