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21 " Sentiment makes us fools, and yet, without sentiment, we would be little better than dumb instruments wielded by the gods in their incomprehensible games. "
― Ken Liu , The Wall of Storms (The Dandelion Dynasty, #2)
22 " Sometimes you must do the right thing even if it hurts you. Actions reify ideals. We must never stop striving to do good, to protect the weak and the powerless. This is the charge to all men of learning. "
23 " To make old lines say something new was a way to practice the mentality of an engineer who often needed to make old parts accomplish new purposes "
24 " Different philosophers are appropriate for different times, "
25 " We would like to take up the heavy plow under your guidance and labor in the fields of knowledge. "
26 " Words and actions must be read under the guiding light of intent "
27 " They are narrow-minded fools who have memorized ten thousand Ano logograms and think they know all there is to know. Such poverty of spirit cannot lead to true beauty or grace or suppleness of thought. "
28 " Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the crown of light, of experiences borne and gaps filled, of things seen and visions that could only be authenticated by the mind's eye. "
29 " The only duty any child owes to her parent is to live a life that is true to her nature. "
30 " True courage comes not from being certain and unafraid, but from doing what must be done even while being terrified and full of doubts. "
31 " Not every mind learns the same way. A knife needs to be sharpened against stone, but a pearl needs to be polished with soft cloth. "
32 " If the young do not have radical ideas, the world will never change, "
33 " The greatest rulers should be philosophers, not mere bureaucrats. "
34 " The message delivered by Kita Thu is a stone tossed into a pond, and now everyone in the Grand Audience Hall is trying to read the ripples. "