Lao Tzu Quotes
If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
Quotes to Explore
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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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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.
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The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.
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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
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If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!
