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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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A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity...…
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To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
— Thom Yorke
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It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to…
— Herman Melville
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So let me get this straight. You find yourself in the kitchen, you see an eclair in the receptacle, and you think…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly…
— Walter Karp
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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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...if anyone looks with faith at the mystical table and the Bread of Life placed on it, he sees the Person of…
— Gregory Palamas
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He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
— Laozi
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Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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