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“Maybe I’ll never die
I’ll just keep growing younger with you
And you’ll grow younger too
now it seems too lovely to be true
but I know the best things always do.”- Of Montreal

On the way to Song, Yang meets a man at the twon of Ni, who has two wives. One is pretty and the other plain. Yet he favors the plain wife. So Yang asks him why?

The man answers:
“The pretty one knows she is pretty. I don’t.
The plain one knows she is plain. I don’t.
A bad person knows he is bad. I don’t.”

Yang says:
“I shall remember the lesson. The Saint behaves as a Saint, by his own volition.”

“Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can’t, you’re absolutely right.”
- Henry Ford

An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Genius is not a generous thing
In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover
And it resents fame
With bitter vengeance

by Jim Carroll

“He who laughs first cries last”