Lao Tzu Quotes
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
Olivia Hussey
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
Adam McKay
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
C. Everett Koop
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
Marc Andreesen
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
Galen Rowell
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
Nanette Lepore
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
Yoshihiko Noda
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In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.
Yani Tseng
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
Octavia Spencer
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Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.
Kassie DePaiva
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
Federica Montseny
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
Hans Eysenck
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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Gautama Buddha
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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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One writes such a story The Lord of the Rings not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.
Lao Tzu