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“What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Enchantment

“Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?”
― Confucius, The Analects

“It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”
― Hippocrates

“How can one expect a state of abundance to be everlasting?”
― Alfred Huang, The Complete I Ching: The Definitive Translation

“The clearest and simplest definition of 气 (qi) is that it is the interchange of Yin and Yang.”
― Zhang Yu Huan, A Brief History of Qi

“Filling with food,
Warming with clothes,
Living leisurely without learning,
It is little short of animals.”
― Mencius, Mencius

“It is important to realize that chance has no memory.”
― Sylvia S. Mader, Inquiry Into Life

“A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.”
― Confucius

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin