Lao Tzu Quotes

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

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• Even though I've danced with actors, it wasn't the same with NTR.

  

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• I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!

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• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

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• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

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• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

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• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

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• We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

  

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• I used to work for an SOE. The wealth I created didn't belong to me. In other words, I was only managing money for the country and the people.

  

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• Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.

  

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• When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

  

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• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

  

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• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

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• I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.

  

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• 'I've got a sort of idea,' said Pooh at last, 'but I don't suppose it's a very good one.' 'I don't suppose it is either,' said Eeyore.

  

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• It occurs to you that Ulysses is about cliché. It is about inherited, ready-made formulations - most notably Irish Catholicism and anti-Semitism. After all, prejudices are clichés: they are secondhand hatreds . . . Joyce never uses a cliché in innocence.

  

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• As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

  

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• The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

  

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• Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Magic
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• The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Victory
  • Responds
  • Way Of Heaven