Confucius Quotes
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
Eamon de Valera
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
Barney Frank
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Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.
Patrick Modiano
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No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
Elie Wiesel
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There are some characters in 'The Names' who are very much heroes and others who can only be called villains. But generally, as we get to know them, we see most of the characters are, or at least become, quite nuanced.
Peter Milligan
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
David Harvey
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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.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
Kip Thorne
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I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.
Oprah Winfrey
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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.
Leon Trotsky
