Wang Yangming Quotes

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

Wang Yangming

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• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

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• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

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• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

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• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

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• I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

  

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• I call myself a constitutional conservative.

  

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• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  

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• The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

  

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• I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?

  

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• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

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• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

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• I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.

  

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• The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

  

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• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  

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• In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.

  

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• I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

  

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• I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.

  

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• You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.

  

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• Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

  

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• From about age 17 to 25, a time some people describe as "beautiful youth," it was "arranged" for me to live with two different collectives. These eight years where I had absolutely no choice influenced me in two ways: firstly, I gained an understanding of "freedom." To this day, I very much respect and treasure individual choice. Secondly, I developed a suspicion towards any kind of organization, collective, movement or uniform action, as well as a rejection of any kind of power.

  

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• I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

  

  Wang Yangming
  • Running
  • Greater
  • Hundred