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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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
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But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
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Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
