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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle…
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Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.
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He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled.…
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;…
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He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of…
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings…
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Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I…
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven…
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a…
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The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the…
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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not…
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As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can…
— Barbara Deming
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
— Douglass North
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
— Laozi
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Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from…
— Steven Furtick
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The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism.…
— Ernst Zundel
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Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
— Sri Aurobindo
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One of the most distinguishing differences between liberals and conservatives in America is that the average Liberal feels that we should have…
— Derek R. Audette
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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
— Erich Fromm
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born…
— Sydney Smith
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Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our…
— Osip Mandelstam
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Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
— Osip Mandelstam
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