Confucius Quotes
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or whatever. It's just about collaboration; it's about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women's athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.
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Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.
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The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.
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I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing.
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What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.
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The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.
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In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.
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In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.
