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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

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Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
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Food Hunger Injury Men Mindset
The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.
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Confidence Family Foundation Nation World
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
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Animal Humanity People Water Wild
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
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Goodness Human Humanity Men Nature Water
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
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Authority Difficult Family Government
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
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Artist Job Power
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
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Destiny Development Heaven Mindset
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
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Duty Responsibility Roots
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
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Decision Men Vigor
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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Deep Desire People Philosophy
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
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Flow Human Nature Water
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
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Kindness Men Reputation
Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand.
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Hands Respect World
The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart.
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Heart Learning Seek
In abundance prepare for scarcity.
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Abundance Money One Liner Scarcity
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
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Greatness Sincere

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

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