Ge Hong Quotes
People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.
Quotes to Explore
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
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'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'
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In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
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The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning.
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Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
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Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!
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People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'
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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
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My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
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Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
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People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.
