Quote #34

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - This is was commonly mistakely to be discribed as Laozi's, but this is a rumor.

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  1. The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, not the great as too big, for he knows that, there is no limit t…
  2. When the center does not hold, the circle falls apart. [References 'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats]
  3. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
  4. When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
  5. To see things in the seed, that is genius.
  6. To lead people walk behind them.
  7. The true free living human-being is the one that achieves his dream without depending on someone.
  8. I am not at all interested in immortality, only in the taste of tea.

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