Confucius Quotes
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Quotes to Explore
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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I strongly support the bipartisan immigration measure previously passed by the Senate, and when I served in Congress I was proud to have helped introduce the House version of the bill. I also strongly support the DREAM Act.
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Jesus, if I know one thing about the industry, it's that it's a moment. A flash in the pan. That's what's lovely about it. But it's hard, because one moment you're the hot thing, and the next moment - you're not. And there's no rhyme or reason for it.
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I came to America because this is a country defined by ladders of opportunity.
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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
