Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Surprise is key in all art.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.
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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
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I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
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Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.
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I try to keep an even keel.
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Roads were made for journeys not destinations.
