Zhuge Liang Quotes
The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Those who go along get along.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.
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In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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I think people desperately want to feel love.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
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I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
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A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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'Those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword' say the Scriptures, and it may well be that in the progress of events the working class of Ireland may be called upon to face the stern necessity of taking the sword (or rifle) against the capitalist class.
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Sometimes, you see folks who have a negative view of dreamers - people who sit around all day on their hindquarters and do absolutely nothing. These folks aren't dreamers - they are just lazy. To me, dreaming is just part of being alive, inspired, and curious about the world.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
