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 have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.
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Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.
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Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.
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Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
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It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)
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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.
