Confucius Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water
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What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
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We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
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I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
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Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
