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    Daniel J. Siegel
    “Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows.”
    ― Daniel J. Siegel
    tags: attention, neuroplasticity, neuroscience
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    Zhuangzi
    “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
    ― Zhuangzi, The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu
    tags: philosophy, spirituality
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: forbidden, good-and-evil, laws, morality, rules
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    Jean-Luc Picard
    “The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.”
    ― Jean-Luc Picard
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    Jean-Luc Picard
    “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.”
    ― Jean-Luc Picard
    tags: star-trek
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    Jean-Luc Picard
    “Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal.”
    ― Jean-Luc Picard
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    Jean-Luc Picard
    “You cannot explain away a wantonly immoral act because you think that it is connected to some higher purpose.”
    ― Jean-Luc Picard
    tags: badass-captain, next-gen, star-trek
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    Voltaire
    “Crush the infamous thing!”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #9
    “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you.”
    ― Carter Crocker, Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin
    tags: bravery, commonly-misattributed-quotes, courage, misattributed-a-a-milne
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  • #10
    “The Robin and the Sparrow"
    Said the robin to the sparrow,
    “I should really like to know,
    Why these anxious human beings
    Rush about and worry so.”
    Said the sparrow to the robin,
    “Friend I think that it must be,
    That they have no Heavenly Father,
    Such as cares for you and me.”
    ― Elizabeth Cheney
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: library
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  • #13
    Sun Tzu
    “who wishes to fight must first count the cost”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
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  • #14
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Roger de Rabutin
    “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
    ― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
    tags: absence, long-distance-love, longing, love, separation
    573 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
    1957 likes

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  • #18
    “You have been, and always shall be, my friend”
    ― Mr. Spock to Captain Kirk
    tags: star-trek
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  • #19
    Voltaire
    “In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: criticism, religion
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  • #20
    “Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.”
    ― Captain Jack Sparrow
    tags: dishonest, honest, movie, pirates-of-the-caribbean
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    Douglas Adams
    “They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Harper Lee
    “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: life
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    Harper Lee
    “We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: trust
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    Harper Lee
    “Pass the damn ham, please.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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  • #25
    Harper Lee
    “There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: harper-lee, to-kill-a-mockingbird
    588 likes

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    Harper Lee
    “It's not time to worry yet”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: worry
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    Ernest Cline
    “Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network..." "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. 'The own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?”
    ― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
    tags: funny, humor, humorous-quotes
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore
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  • #29
    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
    tags: books, library, longing
    3453 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë
    92 likes



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