Confucius Quotes
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Quotes to Explore
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.
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Every woman is a character - but people need to see I'm a regular human. It's like you wear a pink wig and you're no longer human all of sudden.
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It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.
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Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.
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Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.
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The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.
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He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
