"Yielding, like ice about to melt." — Laozi
"Yielding, like ice about to melt."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
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Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.
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I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed.
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
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Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
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Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other…
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