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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.