Confucius Quotes
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
Sam Kean -
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
Yohan Blake -
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
Yusuf Hamied -
No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
Mara Wilson -
I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
Omar Sy -
All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
Dan Webster
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier -
I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
Zara Larsson -
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
Talulah Riley -
I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Orlando Bloom -
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
Bear Grylls -
Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
Dan Rather -
So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
Edmund Morgan -
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln -
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
Katherine Philips -
I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
Orlando Bloom -
My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
Fortune Feimster -
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
Confucius