Confucius Quotes
To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
Quotes to Explore
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I don't like controversy.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
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But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
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It's a heartfelt request that those things need to be kept in place.
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But you need to straddle the line, I think.
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Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?
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To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.
