Lao Tzu Quotes
True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.
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God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.
