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"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good."
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Personal Development

"In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster."
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"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."
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"It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover."
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"First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images."
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"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."
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"An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster."
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"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."
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"We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state."
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"The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus."
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"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."
Cause

"Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that."
Nature

"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."
Philosophy

"The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him."
Philosophy

"A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned."
Philosophy

"Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order."
Society

"If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction."
Philosophy

"Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity."
Nature

"The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere."
Travel

"Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die."
Love
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