Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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