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What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

Jian Yang

Mean, Taoism, Development

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Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Alan Watts

Writing, Men, Names

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One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Letting Go, Perseverance, Mistake

Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make—and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

John P. Kotter

Smart, Intelligent, Two

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Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

Colman McCarthy

Children, School, Giving

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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

Will Cuppy

Ideas, Novelists, Care

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Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

A.C. Grayling

Winning, Two, People

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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Lafcadio Hearn

Ideas, Effort, Generations

Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.156, tredition

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Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Aleksandar Hemon

Self, Talking, Pity

Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.208, Macmillan

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I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

Peter Mayle

Shopping, People, Sitting

FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 26, 2011

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Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

Glenn Danzig

Fans, Stuff

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I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.

Cus D'Amato

Believe, Men, Thinking

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Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

Mean, Artist, Giving

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Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.

Bernard Beckett

Action, Sometimes, Failing

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A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.

Pierre Fresnay

Golf, Escaping, Tennis

"Fictional character: Le captaine de Boeldieu". "La Grande Illusion", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Men, Space, Self

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The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Dave Freudenthal

Public Officials, Officials

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Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.

Mike Mason

Real, Fate, Love Is

Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah

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There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

J. Christopher Herold

Program, Prelude, Dictatorship

J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

Barbara Marciniak

Choices, Mind, Use

Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.3, New World Library

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Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

Bill N. Lacy

Thinking, Two, People

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No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

Robert Higgs

Fire, Guarantees That, House

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Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

Lynn Johnston

Book, Writing, Exercise

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Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity

Napoleon Hill

Home, Opportunity, Long

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Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

Catherine Booth

Running, Men, Soul

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