Lao Tzu Quotes
The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
Lao Tzu
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
Tea Obreht
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
Omar Sy
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman
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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.
Sean O'Casey
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Sallust
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No Catholics in my family.
Mike D
The Beastie Boys
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Banking now is like sending a letter: you send it, you don't know if it reached there. Ripple is more like sending an iMessage: you send it, and you immediately know.
Chris Larsen
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I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
Donald Tusk
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The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
Lao Tzu