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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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Most men are not kept within the bounds of moderation by mere admonition, or even by example; it is absolutely necessary to punish them by disfranchisement, by exile, or by death.
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He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
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Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.
