Confucius Quotes
If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.
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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.
