Lao Tzu Quotes
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
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It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.
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I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
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Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.
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God is not the author of confusion but is the author of
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Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.
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We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them.
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Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.
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We with Andrew Ridgeley were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
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Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.
