Confucius Quotes
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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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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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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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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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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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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We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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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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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
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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.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.
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We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
