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Zhuang Zi

"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse."

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"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse."

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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."

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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

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"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

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"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

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"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."

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"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

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"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."

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"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"
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"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."
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