Lao Tzu Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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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.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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It seems like I’m responsible for every crime that takes place in this country.
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.
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There is no greater crime than desire.
