Confucius Quotes
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.
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I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
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A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
