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    Charles Dickens
    “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: growth, heart, life, suffering
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    Charles Dickens
    “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
    tags: cowardice, morality, pip
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    Adam M. Grant
    “Argue like you’re right and listen like you’re wrong.”
    ― Adam M. Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
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    Hans Rosling
    “There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.”
    ― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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    Hans Rosling
    “Remember: things can be bad, and getting better.”
    ― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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    David Hume
    “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”
    ― David Hume
    tags: emotions, philosophy, reason
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    René Descartes
    “Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
    ― René Descartes
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    René Descartes
    “Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
    ― Rene Descartes
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    René Descartes
    “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
    ― René Descartes
    tags: philosophy, self-determination, self-discipline
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    René Descartes
    “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
    ― Descartes
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Well done is better than well said.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: lies, lying, trust
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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    Seneca
    “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
    ― Seneca
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: appreciation, awe, beauty, life, optimism, positivity, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: integrity, morality
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge
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