Confucius Quotes

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

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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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When boxers fight 3 minutes per round, they have 3 minutes to box, so they are not in a hurry to show the judges who is winning. They have time to slow down their feet. In 2 minute round fights, they don't have time to slow down their feet. It's a fast speed because they only have 2 minutes.
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If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.