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  2. May you live in interesting times - Wikipedia

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    (Hear, hear.) I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety. (Hear, hear.) [emphasis added] [1]

  3. Confucius - Wikipedia

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    Confucius was educated at schools for commoners, where he studied and learned the Six Arts. [21] Confucius was born into the class of shi (士), between the aristocracy and the common people. He is said to have worked in various government jobs during his early 20s, and as a bookkeeper and a caretaker of sheep and horses, using the proceeds to ...

  4. Wikipedia:If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas

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    If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas, or in Latin, qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent. "He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas" has been attributed to Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack.

  5. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    [7] Nonetheless, the proverb soon after became popularly attributed to Confucius. The actual Chinese expression "Hearing something a hundred times isn't better than seeing it once" (百 闻 不 如 一 见, p bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn) is sometimes introduced as an equivalent, as Watts's "One showing is worth a hundred sayings". [8]

  6. Three wise monkeys - Wikipedia

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    The carvings at Tōshō-gū Shrine were carved by Hidari Jingoro, and are believed to have incorporated Confucius’s Code of Conduct, using the monkey as a way to depict man’s life cycle. There are a total of eight panels, and the iconic three wise monkeys picture comes from panel 2.

  7. 30 Mansplaining Memes That Say It All - AOL

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    Know Your Meme suggests the term emerged on May 21, 2008, in the comments section of an internet discussion group . It is unclear whether this comment (now removed) was in light of Solnit’s work ...

  8. List of common misconceptions about arts and culture

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    The games' designer Sid Meier attributed the origins of the rumor to both a TV Tropes thread and a Know Your Meme entry, [283] while Reddit and a Kotaku article helped popularize it. [284] Gandhi's supposed behavior did appear in the 2010 Civilization V [ 283 ] as a joke, and in 2016's VI [ 285 ] as a reference to the legend.

  9. Zi Yue (band) - Wikipedia

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    The first album (The black nose and mouth represent the characters Zi Yue, the writing behind "Kong Says") Zi Yue (子曰乐队) or Yaoshi Ziyue (爻釋・子曰) are a Chinese rock band formed in Beijing in 1994. The name "Zi yue" literally means "Confucius Says...," but the band has occasionally also used the English name You.Me.It.. The ...