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Lao Tzu Quotes

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: chinese
Birth: B.C.571 - B.C.471

Topics

Patriotism Nation Flourish Patriots

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

Great Tree Feet Grow Down Become

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

Long You Old Pencil Tool Fingers

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Kind Taste Jane Austen Jane Graham

Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.

Food Face Long Price Product Candy

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

Woman Happy Child Me Baby Walking

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

Feet Two High System Half Foot

I recently got into 'Scandal.' I'm obsessed. It's so good. I want to know Olivia Pope. I want to dress like her; I want to be friends with her. I wish she were real!

Good Dress Friends Wish Know Want

I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-'60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn't the night before.

Night Him Working Advantage Still

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Buildings Find Out Affect Us Would

I like to go to the beach, have a bonfire, and play music.

Music Beach Play Go Bonfire Like

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

Breyten Breytenbach

Power World America Goal Dangerous

I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.

Good Fake Better Look Never Need

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