Confucius Quotes
Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
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Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.
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I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.
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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.
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Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
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It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.
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Cruel is the strife of brothers.
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A country in which 42% of the population is totally misinformed is not a country where democracy is safe.
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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.
