Lao Tzu Quotes
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.
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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
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It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
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You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
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We were five heterosexual, good-looking men. We competed against each other for the sexiest girls... I won.
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I don't watch the news because I wouldn't leave the house. I would not leave the house.
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Never index your own book.
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In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.
Colson Whitehead -
Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.
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In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.
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I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.
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I prefer not to discuss politics for one reason: I'm absolutely sure that I understand nothing about politics.
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Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
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Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.
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The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood.
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
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The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'
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“Force is the weapon of the weak.”
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The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.
