Lao Tzu Quotes
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
Quotes to Explore
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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'Let's go out and buy a statistically average meal from a large multinational restaurant chain. That usually fixes about seventy-five percent of life's problems.'
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In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.
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Oh yeah, they do that right?
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
