Confucius Quotes

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

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• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

  

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• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

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• Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

  

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• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  

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• Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

  

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• You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
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• When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

  

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  • Business
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• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

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  • Good
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• Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
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• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  

  Vance Packard
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• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  

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• James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.

  

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• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • People
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• I was afraid to express myself for a while.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Myself
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• White America is in the minority.

  

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  • America
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• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

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• My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

  

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  • Wife
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• When you go to Best Buy and see a DVD of your movie, you think it's amazing. But then there's a whole other world that comes with it. It's a very small percent that's difficult, stalker-like, or annoying. Most people are just so gracious and so nice. As cheesy as it sounds, that's the thing that really keeps you going.

  

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• I've been honored to take part in protests and events across Illinois, joining with thousands of you in the resistance, making calls, sending letters, and making sure Washington understands that we will not allow the ACA to be repealed.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • You
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• There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

  

  Confucius
  • Fool
  • Fat
  • Choked