Wang Yangming Quotes
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
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The Idealization of deep flaws seeping through coiled cracks;The reality we all want to avoid is a plagued sickness we choose to live with.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.
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Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
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There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.
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For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.
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Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?
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As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.
Charles B. Rangel -
People can buy a bottle of gin and drink it at home for about a buck a drink, whereas they are willing to go to a bar and pay 12 bucks for the same cocktail. The difference is that man needs to be social. So I believe that there is a strong demand for games that are social.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
