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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It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
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I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
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The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
