Confucius Quotes
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Laura San Giacomo
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
Sam Houston
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
Gary Hamel
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Cameron Mackintosh
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
Lael Brainard
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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
Gay Talese
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller
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I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.
Liam Payne One Direction
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I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
Little Richard
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I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith
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Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
Walter Wriston
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I think he genuinely meant it. I think he really wants to do the right things to escape this demon that's got him.
Gary Sheffield
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I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.
Andriy Shevchenko
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Sophocles
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Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
Etty Hillesum
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Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
Confucius