Lao Tzu Quotes
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
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Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
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Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
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Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
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The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
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Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.
