Lao Tzu Quotes
The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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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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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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Cut off the head of the snake
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Oh rainy day woman,I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine.You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman.
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
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In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind.
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Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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The Master observes the world, but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. His heart is as open as the sky.
