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Archivist Inspirational Quotes (886)

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When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.
Matthew Carter
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
Laozi
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Not all spiritual paths lead to the harmonious Oneness. Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.
Laozi
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
Laozi
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To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer
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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
Laozi
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Nature is not human hearted.
Laozi
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Be Content with what you have rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Laozi
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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness This is the secret of health.
Laozi
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C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.
Henry Spencer
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The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
Laozi
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Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
Mary Ritter Beard
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Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.
Laozi
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Be the chief but never the lord.
Laozi
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If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencer
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Life and death are one thread.
Laozi
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Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.
Laozi
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When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is the student offering himself to the teacher, or the teacher offering herself to the student. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.
Laozi
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The master understands that the universe is forever out of control
Laozi
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He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.
Laozi
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As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go hopeless, we are lost forever.
Laozi
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Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true that which is opposed or contradictory to the false.
Gottfried Leibniz
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He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Gottfried Leibniz
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The rigid and big belong below. The soft and weak belong above.
Laozi
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