Confucius Quotes

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

Confucius

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• I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.

  

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• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
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  • Scares
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• When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  

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• Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

  

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• I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

  

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• It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be.

  

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  • Important

• All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
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• The highest thing in a man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. You are my highest reverence.

  

  Ayn Rand
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• If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

  

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• I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

  

  Deborah Norville
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• I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

  

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  • Father

• Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

  

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• I know deep down I'm a star.

  

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• As a teenager, I developed a great interest in not only horse breeding but also horse racing and used to bet based on red-hot tips. I realized that becoming a bookmaker would be very lucrative, but Dad put his foot down, saying it was an inappropriate career.

  

  Cyrus S. Poonawalla
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• The stuff that I used to worry about before, it's like I don't worry about it anymore. Which is kind of a beautiful result of having a baby. It's like everything gets so simple. It's like, 'Great, I care about how you're doing. I care about getting you what you need, and the rest of this stuff, if it happens, great, if it doesn't happen, oh well.'

  

  Briga Heelan
  • Great
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• I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

  

  Alessandro Michele
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• I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

  

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• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
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  • Strict

• My mom was definitely very strict with me.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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• There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

  

  David Grubbs
  • Part
  • Strict
  • Materialist

• We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Customers
  • Selling
  • Chicken

• Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

  

  Confucius
  • Strict
  • Afar
  • Reproachful