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| I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. |
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| I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. |
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| I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live. |
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| I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. |
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| I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. |
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| If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. |
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| If I am walking with two other men, each of them I will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. |
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| If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. |
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| If many years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes. |
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| If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things |
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| If you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed. |
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| If you know, to recognize that you know, If you don't know, to realize that you don't know: That is knowledge. |
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| If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? |
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| If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? |
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| If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot. |
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| If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. |
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| If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day |
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| Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star |
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| In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. |
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