"The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right."
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"But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao."
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"It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work."
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"Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor."
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"The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another."
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"Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works."
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"In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others."
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"He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice."
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"I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage."
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"True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world."
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"Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies."
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"A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying."
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"The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life."
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"We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)"
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"Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right"
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"One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent."
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"When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good."
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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject."
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