Confucius Quotes
The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.
Quotes to Explore
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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Heroes can be sweet.
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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
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I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.
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If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
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I'll watch a kung fu movie for kicks, no pun intended, but I'd prefer to watch other movies besides dubbed kung fu things, but they're funny.
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Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
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Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
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His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.
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We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
