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• Ruling a big country is like cooking a small fish. -- Lao Tsu
• Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish. -- Lao Tzu
• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. -- Lao-Tzu
• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it. -- Lao Tsu
• A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. -- Lao Tze
• A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step. LAO-TZE
• If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
  James A. Garfield, US Preside...
• Comrades, we have established beyond a doubt that it is possible to build socialism in one large country - like the Soviet Union.
  But is it possible to built it in a very small country, say, Switzerland....
• Advise] the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish -- that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates.
  -- Lao Tzu...