Confucius Quotes
At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
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My dream of society is a society where women are free and proud of their bodies.
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Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
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There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.
Chad Hurley -
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future.
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.
