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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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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to…
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We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to…
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Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is…
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The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are…
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The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.
— Carl Jung
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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a…
— Nikola Tesla
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My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system…
— Timothy Leary
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All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the…
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