Confucius Quotes
Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.
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I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?
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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
