Confucius Quotes
If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
Gary Cole
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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
Maggie Carey
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
Laura Bell Bundy
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
Harrison Ford
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
Jack Keane
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Hannah Arendt
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
Gaby Hoffmann
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
Malaika Arora Khan
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As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein.
Elena Ferrante
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
J. R. Moehringer
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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin
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It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.
Joseph P. Kennedy III
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If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
Confucius
