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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much h

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it. – Lao Tzu

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It is better to do ones own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. – Lao Tzu

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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. – Lao Tzu

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When the best leaders work is done the people say, We did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. – Honore de Balzac

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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions. – Lara Flynn Boyle

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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. – J. K. Rowling

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. – Theodore Roosevelt

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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. – Joseph Rotblat

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The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The citys magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. – Jerry Saltz

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My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. – Henry Rollins

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