Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
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I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.
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To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
