Confucius Quotes
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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I've been very fortunate.
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I'm here to say all lives matter.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.
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I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.
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None of these challenges can be solved quickly or easily. But all of them demand that we listen to one another and work together; that we focus on our common interests, not on occasional differences; and that we reaffirm our shared values, which are stronger than any force that could drive us apart. That is the work that we must carry on.
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Mondrian? His mind was too subtle. He worked in the light. I work in the darkness.. .Mondrian is the Buddha of painting. I saw him once. You wondered how a man could radiate such charisma.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
