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Zhang Zhidong Quotes

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: chinese
Birth: September 4, 1837 - October 5, 1909

Topics

Education Good People Good People

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

People Mind Door Night Think Bad

I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads.

Music Time Me Song Road Talking

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

Tommy Lee Jones

Good Movies Through Been Like Some

I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.

Love Business Me Moving Night Enjoy

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Michel de Montaigne

Life Value You Find Satisfaction

For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.

Day Football Me Fashion Strong Big

I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.

Golf Say Land Tower Playing Would

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Morning School End Year Christmas

Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Life Great Childhood End My Life Up

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.

Life Real Real Life One Thing Pun

I did read Indian scriptures when we could get the English versions, but the problem was I never took the time to learn the language. Really, what it comes down to is that I knew the emotion of faith; I knew what my parents were trying to teach me, but we always said 'No' when my mom was trying to teach us Punjabi.

Faith Time Parents Me Mom Language

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

Marsha Blackburn

Government America Tax Now Way Out

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