Confucius Quotes
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.
Quotes to Explore
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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All labels are offensive in some way.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.
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Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.
