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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I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.
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The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
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Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.
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I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
