Xun Kuang Quotes
Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I love doing television series.
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You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
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I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.
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Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast.
