Zhang Zhidong Quotes

Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

Zhang Zhidong

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• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
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• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  

  Ted Dekker
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• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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• Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

  

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• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Life
  • Women
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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
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• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
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• To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
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• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
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• I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

  

  I. King Jordan
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  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
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• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

  

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• I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

  

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• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

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• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

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• There have always been mixed emotions about Howard Cosell: Some people hate him like poison, and other people just hate him regular.

  

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• In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

  

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• Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

  

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• Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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  • Culture
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• Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Time
  • Kids
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• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy