Lao Tzu Quotes
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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I like the pause that tea allows.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
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The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.
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We know from many experiences that this is what the work of art does: its life - in which we have shared the alien existences both of this world and of that different world to which the work of art alone gives us access - unwillingly accuses our lives.
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Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.
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Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.
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I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.
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All this fighting stems from the illusion that people choose to learn a language for rational reasons, that they are looking for the language that has the most useful features, the best agenda. But no one is out there comparison shopping for an artificial language. They find what they like, and there's no accounting for taste.
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Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
