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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To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.
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Everything you are seeking is seeking you in return. Therefore, everything you want is already yours. So, you don't have to get anything. It is simply a matter of becoming more aware of what you already possess.
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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.
