Confucius Quotes
When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.
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I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.
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Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.
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When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.
