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It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.
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In the course of time, we grow to love things we hated and hate things we loved.
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If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow?
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We are all to some degree oppressed, unfree. We don't come to our own. It is there, but we don't get at it. The threshold must be made to shift.
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Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.
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the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step
Confuciusmisattributed·The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics (trans. James Legge)·1891
Wrongly attributed
Not Confucius. The line is from the Tao Teh King, a different book by a different school, traditionally ascribed to Laozi -- a figure whose very existence historians doubt. Two things drift in the popular version: li becomes miles, and commenced becomes begins with. Legge's 1891 translation, the standard English text for a century, says neither.