Lao Tzu Quotes
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.
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The future isn't just something that happens. It's a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that'll steamroll you if you're not watching.
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I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it.
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That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."
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To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
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He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
