Ways of thinking

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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
Henry B. Adams

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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
Hippocrates

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“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson

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"We are made of starstuff.” Carl Sagan

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"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."
Leonardo da Vinci

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"Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter."
Sharon Salzberg

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Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns (1896-1996)

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The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. - Brenna Manning

This quote is particularly appropriate for so many taiji practitioners.

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“Be with those who help your being.
Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath
comes cold out of their mouths.”
Rumi

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"He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar."
Chuang-tzu, The Great Supreme

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I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
-- Miles Davis

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"May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours!"
Irish blessing

Happy St. Patrick's day

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“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson

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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
Plutarch

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He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
 –William Drummond

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. –
Voltaire

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"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
George Lois

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"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
John Ruskin

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower