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Tokugawa Ieyasu Quotes

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: leader
Nationality: japanese
Birth: January 31, 1543 - June 1, 1616

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Imperfection Will Despair Room

I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s.

Joe R. Lansdale

Best America Born Everything Up

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

Life Moving Life Is A Target Group

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.

God Truth Proud Think Look Gay

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Best Democracy American Informed Mr

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Work Art More Things Where Almost

There's a time when it was an event for a black person to be on television. Where black households would gather around, 'Oh, you know, Sammy Davis is going to be on 'All in the Family' tonight! Let's go check it out!' It was a big, big thing.

Sterling K. Brown

Family Time Black You Television Go

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

Women Black Think You Person Race

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

Life Living Dying Only Maintain

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

World Reality Values Hopeless Become

John Hirschbeck is a wonderful person with a wonderful family. I'm so glad that we have become friends.

Family Friends Person Become Glad

That's why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful.

Powerful Special Why Content Social

I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?

Life Live Art Yourself Happy Me

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