Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
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Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.
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The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
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