Silence is a source of great strength.

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About Laozi

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Laozi (variously spelled; , low-TSUH; Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ) is the name traditionally given to an ancient Chinese philosopher, also identified as Li Er or Lao Dan, who is regarded as the author or originating teacher associated with the Tao Te Ching (Pinyin: Dào Dé Jīng), one of the foundational...

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Nature is not human hearted.

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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.… Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year—and therefore did.

—Archibald MacLeish

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

—Ernest Hemingway

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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

—Dame Rose Macaulay

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

—Marcel Marceau

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