Confucius Quotes
The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
Quotes to Explore
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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Your love is a fierce thing, Elena, a thing with claws and teeth when it comes to protecting those you claim.
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We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.
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If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.
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As Chairman of the Ways and Means committee, I am proud to have written about half of the American Health Care Act that passed the House so we can finally provide Americans with patient-centered healthcare that fits your family's needs.
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We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.
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The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.
