"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."

Confucius on action
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"Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting."

Seeley, Sir John Robert on life
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"The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."

Confucius on faults
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

Confucius on fathers
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"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

Confucius on planning
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"Life is a puzzle"

Confucius on
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"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Confucius on wise words quote
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."

Confucius on virtue
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"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."

Confucius on truth
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"If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people."

Confucius on teacher
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"The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself."

Confucius on character
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius on change
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."

Lehrer, Tom on communication
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"We derive our vitality from our store of madness."

Cioran, E. M. on vitality
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"Exercise: you don't have time not to."

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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

Allen, Fred A. on exercise
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"Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings."

Brodkey, Harold on exercise   

"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."

Cicero, Marcus T. on law and lawyers   

"The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has."

Chandler, Raymond on law and lawyers   

"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."

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"Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances."

Azarias on law and lawyers
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"I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings."

Asoka on law and lawyers   

"Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete."

Bagehot, Walter on law and lawyers   

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"The law is reason, free from passion."

Aristotle on law and lawyers
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"Law is a bottomless pit."

Arbuthnot, John on law and lawyers
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"I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement."

Coolidge, Calvin on law and lawyers   

"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

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"In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

Depree, Max on leadership
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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers