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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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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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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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
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Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."
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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
