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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
― Anonymous

tags: african-proverb

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#2

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#3

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

tags: science

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#4

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: inspirational, life-happiness

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#5

“I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#6

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
― Augusta F. Kantra

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#7

“While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.”
― Seneca

tags: inspirational

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#8

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ”
― Henry Kissinger

tags: leadership

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#9

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

tags: bible, christianity, evolution, science

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#10

“One planet, one experiment.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: environmentalism, science

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#11

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational

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#12

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

tags: bibliophilia, books

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#13

“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.”
― Lord Chesterfield

tags: wisdom

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#14

“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”
― Phyllis Bottome

tags: luck

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#15

“I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.”
― Jules Renard

tags: boredom

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#16

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: goals

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#17

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

tags: adage, deceit, politics, wisdom

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#18

“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: saints, sinner

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#19

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
― Maria Robinson

tags: inspirational

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#20

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems

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#21

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: discovery, travel

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#22

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

tags: create, misattributed, problem-solving, thinking

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#23

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: listening

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#24

“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”
― Richard Branson

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#25

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

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#26

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: willful-ignorance

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: ethic, habits, morality, virtue

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#28

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
― Pablo Picasso

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#29

“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.”
― Alan Greenspan

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#30

“It doesn't make sense to hire good people and tell them what to do; we hire good people so they can tell us what to do.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: hiring-talent

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