Confucius Quotes
The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.
Quotes to Explore
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We were descended from royalty.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world.
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If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.
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Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.
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The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.
