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Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

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Zhuang Zi
Chuang Tzŭ
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Zhuang Zhou
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