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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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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough…
— Beryl Markham
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . .…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns…
— B.F. Skinner
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In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
— Epicurus
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Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but…
— Irving Langmuir
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. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the…
— Ernest Holmes
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that…
— Jim Cornette
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Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his…
— Napoleon Hill
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A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of…
— George Iles
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