Confucius Quotes
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
Quotes to Explore
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Home is most important in the long run.
Patrick Lencioni
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I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
Patricia Highsmith
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Jeanette Winterson
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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
John McEnroe
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The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.
Joe Wilson
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
Eddie Condon
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How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.
Pablo Picasso
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
Artie Lange
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The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
Marianne Williamson
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
Albert Einstein
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.
Stella Benson
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
Larisa Oleynik
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
J. R. R. Tolkien