Confucius Quotes
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Confucius
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
Olivia Colman
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson
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From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.
Dan Pfeiffer
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
Walton Goggins
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I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.
Tamsin Greig
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What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.
Manning Marable
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
Wayne Shorter
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An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
Umberto Eco
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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
Barack Obama
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Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".
Barack Obama
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In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
Rachel Carson
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You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.
David Deida
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
William Penn
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History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.
Joseph Stalin
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There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
Albert Camus
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The Americans don't like the American look but the Europeans just eat it up.
Ashley Hinshaw
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You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.
Miesha Tate
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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Confucius
