Confucius Quotes

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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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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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.
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I am philosophically opposed to raising the retirement age. I misspoke and said I was not philosophically opposed.
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A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.