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A Person Cannot Forget Someone Who Is Good To Them.

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A Person Cannot Forget Someone Who Is Good To Them.

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I Personally Do Not Believe In The Word Style. Why? Because, Unless There Are Human Beings With Three Arms And Four Legs, Unless We Have Another Group Of Human Beings That Are Structually Different From Us, There Can Be No Different Style Of Fighting.

From Form To Formless And From Finite To Infinite

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If There Is A God, He Is Within. You Don't Ask God To Give You Things, You Depend On God For Your Inner Theme.

If There Is A God

When Finger Point At Moon, Don't Look At Finger Or You'll Miss The Moon.

Do Not Like, Do Not Dislike; All Will Then Be Clear. Make A Hairbreadth Difference And Heaven And Earth Are Set Apart.

Evaluation By Others Is Not A Guide For Me.

You Cannot Force The Now. — But Can You Neither Condemn Nor Justify And Yet Be Extraordinarily Alive As You Walk On? You Can Never Invite The Wind, But You Must Leave The Window Open.

To Take Responsibility For One's Own Actions, Good And Bad, Is Something Else.

Taking Responsibility

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