Lao Tzu Quotes

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

Lao Tzu

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• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

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• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

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• We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

  

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• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
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• I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
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• In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Death
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• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
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• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

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  • Ideas
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• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

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• Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Change
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• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
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• Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

  

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• I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

  

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• I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.

  

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• When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
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• Drinking alone holds no fun. Drink with friends or strangers! Be foolish, least you'll remember something meaningful.

  

  Alcuin
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• Is it that serious？

  

  Chen Shui-bian
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• The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Weapons
  • Restrictions