Lao Tzu Quotes
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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I wouldn't say that I have overcome opposition so much as I have tried to understand it. The lash of judgment carries a wounding sting, and there's a deeply instinctual tendency to want to respond in kind. I am not proud that my thoughts were blackened with vile opinions about the nature of those who were attacking me.
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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.
