Lao Tzu Quotes
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
