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As the Ocean People began to carve up China, it eventually became clear to China’s rulers that the Chinese way of ordering the world culturally could not continue, and that if they wanted China as an entity to survive, the Chinese would
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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
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“A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness, but in our inner most hearts. When that realization dawns in the depths of one's being, the world effortlessly transforms into that which was sought.”
― The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
― The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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Do you have an "appetite for wonder" at the workings of the universe? Do you have ideas and memories worth sharing about science and society? If you d ...more
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