Confucius Quotes
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
Weili Dai
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
Adam Mansbach
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It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
Rachel Platten
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
Tamer Hassan
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
Walter Kirn
