Lao Tzu Quotes
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
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Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
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You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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LeBron's one of the most freaky athletes of all time.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.
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The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.
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My chances of racing in this year's Tour de France are slim to none. That's what got me out of bed every morning.
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Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive.
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You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.
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As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
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The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.
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I'm filthy rich! It's good to be Adam Sandler!
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
