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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Steve Jobs
    “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: design, inspirational, life-lessons
    689 likes

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    Meister Eckhart
    “We rarely find people who achieve great things without first going astray.”
    ― Meister Eckhart
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    Elizabeth I
    “Grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― Queen Elizabeth
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  • #5
    “What can be left to later usually is and then, alas, it’s too late”
    ― Unknown
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    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: misattributed, procrastination
    160 likes

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    Jimi Hendrix
    “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix
    tags: love, misattributed, peace, william-gladstone
    4594 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-to-mark-twain, quote-investigator
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    “Power is dangerous. It corrupts the best and attracts the worst. Power is only given to those who are prepared to lower themselves to pick it up.”
    ― Ragnar Lothbrok
    tags: king, power
    62 likes

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    Seneca
    “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
    ― Ben Franklin
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
    tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing
    4360 likes

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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
    2911 likes

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  • #15
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “All celebrated people lose dignity
    upon a closer view”
    ― Napoléon Bonaparte
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    Jack London
    “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
    ― Jack London
    tags: days, existence, function, living, mankind, wasting-time
    803 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.”
    ― Carl Jung
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  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
    753 likes

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  • #18
    “All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.”
    ― Peaky Blinder
    tags: religion
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    Robert Greene
    “An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite”
    ― Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
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    Steven Pressfield
    “Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”
    ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
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    Steven Pressfield
    “Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.”
    ― Steven Pressfield
    tags: inspirational
    62 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
    40960 likes

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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: life
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    Seán O'Casey
    “All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
    ― Seán O'Casey
    tags: destiny, drama, fate, humanity, humankind, humor, life, stage, theater, world
    592 likes

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    Heraclitus
    “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
    ― Heraclitus, Fragments
    tags: fragment-52, games, heraclitus, leisure, philosophy, play, time, wisdom
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
    2256 likes

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    Seneca
    “Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
    ― Seneca
    374 likes



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