Lao Tzu Quotes
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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People hate searching.
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One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
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I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.
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'Propaganda,' Trevor said. 'Let’s call it psychology. You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.'
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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It's always been my dream to compete.
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I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
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My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.
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By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.
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I am not so wonderful but that in the hour of my triumph I am frightened by my own littleness. Look you, Niafer, I had thought I would be changed when I had become a famous champion, but for all that I stand posturing here with this long sword, and am master of the hour and of the future, I remain the boy that last Thursday was tending pigs.
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I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.
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There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.
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If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.
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Searching for precious goods leads astray.
