Mencius Quotes
The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
Quotes to Explore
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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Being an only child is a disease in itself.
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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
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Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.
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Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
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After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
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The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
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I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
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Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
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I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.
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The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.
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The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!
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There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.
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The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.
