Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
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The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.
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There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.
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It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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Sleep helps you win at life.
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Every time we keep a child from smoking, we improve public health.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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Don't stop with your first draft.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.
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Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as men's literature. I would say that women have been hindered from creating for a variety of reasons, as Virginia Woolf so admirably explained in A Room of One's Own. When they have created, on the whole they have been recognized. In literature it hasn't been nearly as oppressive as in, say, painting, where even the existence of so many women painters has always been denied.
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All things are already complete in oneself.
