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Family
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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
Thoughts and Thinking
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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
Simplicity
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Inaction
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Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
Animals
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Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
Faults
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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
Change
Confucius
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Failure
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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Kindness
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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Silence
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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Sincerity
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Study the past if you would divine the future.
Past
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Knowledge
Confucius
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Fathers
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Self-talk
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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Family
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Growth
Confucius
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The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
Faults
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Family
Confucius
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Action
Confucius
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The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
Superiority
Confucius
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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
Action
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The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
Virtue
Confucius
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
Right and Rightness
Confucius
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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
Change
Confucius
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun