Confucius Quotes
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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Beyond a power play by the oil industry, there is no conceivable explanation for barring courts within any state from considering cases related to oil leases and energy production off its own coastlines.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.
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Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
