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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Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
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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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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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It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
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Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.
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Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.
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I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
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If someone is trying to stop you from enjoying your life by impeding on yours, and telling you that your life is not the right way, then by all means, I'm the first one to say, "Fight for your rights, fight for who you are and for what you believe in." But you better be the stronger person. Just be aware and attentive to everything that's happening in life and know that there are gonna be people that are going to stop you and going to enjoy stopping you from getting to your goals. But just continue to be strong and outwit them.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.
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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.
