Lao Tzu Quotes
The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it.
Quotes to Explore
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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I am not an image. I am a human being.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
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I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
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Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.
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The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it.
