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From one thing, know ten thousand things
-Miyamoto Musashi
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From One Thing, Know Ten Thousand Things

Miyamoto Musashi
From one thing, know ten thousand things
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To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (only the legendary bobby fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) and what's ten years? well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.
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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. for example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.
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The terrible tabulation of the french statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. if one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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