Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
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JeanPaul Sartre
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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Alain De Botton
Girls, " their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.
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Anna Godbersen
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
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Stefan Molyneux
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
More Quotes By Confucius
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.