Lao Tzu Quotes
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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Life is Time Management and then you're dead.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
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Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.
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Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
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Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
