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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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.
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I will scrape and dig into every word as far as I can get, right down to the essence of the word, to the substance of the image.
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What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.
