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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

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In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

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By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

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Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

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The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

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I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

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Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

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Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

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The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

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Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

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There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

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Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.

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There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

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