Lao Tzu Quotes
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
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I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
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There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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It's with my brush that I make love.
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Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
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My country is taking over in tennis
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[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
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It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.
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And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
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The opening of the club will fill a void in the area. It's an exciting addition and a great inexpensive night out for the family.
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What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.
