Quote by Lao Tzu
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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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength. – Lao Tzu

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Courage
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Lao Tzu
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty. – Lao Tzu

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best
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Lao Tzu
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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we dont encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. – Newt Gingrich

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. – Saint Augustine

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. – Frederick Douglass

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Ive made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes. – Henry Rollins

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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. – Marie de France

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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. – Frederick Jackson Turner

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Age

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything. – William Macneile Dixon

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Pregnancy

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. – Aristotle

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