Lao Tzu Quotes
The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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Human beings are religious animals.
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My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
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I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.
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If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.
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Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
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The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.
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The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
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The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
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I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.
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The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.
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The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.
