Confucius Quotes
Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
Quotes to Explore
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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What it would have felt like to fall in love and have nothing holding you back from being completely free.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
