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The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

Benjamin Hoff

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It’s just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
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Dull Information Way
Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren’t given enough.
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Complaining Enough Fountain
The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
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Foolish Pooh Tao Wise
It is very hard to be brave,” said Piglet, sniffing slightly, “when you’re only a Very Small Animal.” Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: “It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.
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Adventure Animal Writing
As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
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Mean Simple Stupid
From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
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Happiness Pooh Tao Views Way
When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.
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Give Up Ideas Self
Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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Able Minded Simple Tao
Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, ‘This isn’t supposed to be happening this way,’ and trying harder to make it happen some other way.
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Pooh Tao Trying Way
A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.
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Ice Ocean Summer
A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn’t really care, wisdom does.
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Clever Heart Mind
The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don’t look clearly and objectively at situations, they don’t recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.
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Believe Play Risk
Treat gain and loss the same.’ Don’t be Intimidated. Don’t make a Big Deal of anything – just accept things as they come to you.
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Accepting Gains Loss
I think, therefore I am confused.
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Confused Thinking
There is more to knowing than just being correct
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Correct Just Being Knowing
Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species – and others – alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.
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Animals Men People

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