Mencius Quotes
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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When you have a good idea, the money flows.
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Grishkin is nice: herRussian eye is underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.
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If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state.
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Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
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You're living in a fantasy to think that music can actually change something.
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Even in the limo, I buckle my seatbelt. I got that seatbelt on before the car moves.
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I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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"Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.
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Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.
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I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.
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The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.
