Confucius Quotes

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

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We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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My main hobby is working. I love what I do.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
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I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.
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Ah, but ignorance is better. At least then there's hope.
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I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
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I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
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Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
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My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.
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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."
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It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.