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“The trouble with people is that they are too fond of being teachers to others.” - Mencius

“The benevolent person is like an archer. The archer corrects their own posture before releasing the arrow. If they shoot and miss, they do not blame the one who surpasses them, but simply turn around and seek the cause within themselves.” - Mencius

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Everything worth studying has an opposite that’s necessary to understand what you thought you were studying.” - unknown

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it.” - Steve Jobs

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.” - Paracelsus

“Friction is underrated” - Christopher Butler

“what the hand does, the mind remembers” - Maria Montessori

“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.” ― Wendell Berry

“Fundamentally, human beings need belief, free play of imagination and intuition in their homes and workshops or they become starved.” - Bernard Leach