Confucius Quotes
Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.
Quotes to Explore
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.
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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
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I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.
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Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.
