Wang Wei Quotes
The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
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I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
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There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.
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Pure sensism leads inevitably to universal doubt; if reality is in the end reducible to sensible appearance, then, since this is in a state of perpetual flux and self-contradiction, no kind of certitude will any longer be possible. Truth is necessary and immutable; but in the sensible order nothing necessary or immutable is to be found; therefore sensible things will never yield us any truth.
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There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
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The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.
