Laozi Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Cutting Quotes

Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Positive Quotes , Cutting Quotes

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Old Things Quotes

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Flower Quotes , Cutting Quotes

God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Love Quotes , Cutting Quotes

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Army Quotes

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

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I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

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When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with the nature of the world than the sowing of seeds, the planting of cuttings, the transplanting of shrubs or the grafting of slips?

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Men Quotes

If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Flower Quotes , Cutting Quotes

The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.

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In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

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Tags : Alan Blinder Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Would Be Quotes

I faced a lot of criticism as president. I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Hands Quotes

I think the American people have a generous instinct. They understand that we're a nation of immigrants. But if those folks are going to live in this country, they have to be put on a pathway to citizenship that involves them paying a fine, making sure that they are at the back of the line and not cutting in front of people who applied legally to come into the country.

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Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.

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Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Two Quotes