Lao Tzu Quotes
Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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I've always been interested in making movies.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
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I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
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Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.
