Lao Tzu Quotes
He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
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Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.
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If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?
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Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.
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I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.
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It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.
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Acting is a mysterious process.
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Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.
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The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.
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At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
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Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.
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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
