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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. If you are successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful if something had been easier.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Horace Mann
    “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, death, humanity, victory
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    “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
    ― JACK MA
    tags: inspiration, life, motivation
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
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    “Be the last man standing.”
    ― Jack Ma
    tags: inspirational
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    “You must always remember that the products of your mind can be used by other people either for good or for evil, and that you have a responsibility that they be used for good.”
    ― Dean Llewellen M. K. Boelter
    tags: engineering-ethics, inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: education
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    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    “When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.”
    ― J. Robert Oppenheimer
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    “With authority comes Responsibility”
    ― Dean Llewellen M. K. Boelter
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    “Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race and how many people we can help to finish this race. Because in the end, it may be you who needs help to finish this race.”
    ― Marc Mero
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    “I no longer live in time; I live in moments.”
    ― Marc Mero
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    “Why has it been accepted as gospel for so long that homework is necessary? The answer, I think, lies not in the perceive virtues of homework but rather in the clear deficiencies of what happens in the classroom. Homework becomes necessary because not enough learning happens during the school day... The broadcast, one-pace-fits-all lecture... turns out to be a highly inefficient way to teach and learn.”
    ― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
    tags: education, homework
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    “Don't waste inspiration”
    ― Salman Khan
    tags: advice, inspirational, life-skills
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    “I teach the way that I wish I was taught. The lectures are coming from me, an actual human being who is fascinated by the world around him.
    —Salman Khan”
    ― Salman Khan
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    “In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is continuous; ideas flow.”
    ― Salman Khan, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
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    “If you were a meal, you'd be satiated, then stuffed, then repulsed. Part of what makes each of us uniquely valuable is the great story, We have a plot, and ultimately it concludes.”
    ― Epicureans of Ancient Greece.
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    Henry Ford
    “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
    ― Henry Ford
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
    ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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    Ray Kurzweil
    “Just as we find it hard to see beyond the event horizon of a black hole, we also find it difficult to see beyond the event horizon of the historical Singularity. How can we, with our brains each limited to 10^16 to 10^19 cps, imagine what our future civilization in 2099 with its 10^60 cps will be capable of thinking and doing?”
    ― Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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    Ian Stewart
    “Maxwell's equations didn't just change the world. They opened up a new one.”
    ― Ian Stewart
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    “But there is no reason why technology should be limited to computers. Properly understood, any new and better way of doing things is technology.”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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    “Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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    Bill Gates
    “Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.”
    ― Bill Gates
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    “发上等愿，结中等缘，享下等福；择高处立，寻平处住，向宽处行。”
    ― 左宗棠
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: companions, company, privacy, solitude
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: environment, exploration, explore, land, mysterious, mystery, nature, sea, unexplorable, unfathomable, wild, wilderness, wildness
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future on this planet.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “It is the knowledge that I'm going to die that creates the focus that I bring to being alive; the urgency of accomplishment; the need to express love; now, not later. If we live forever, why ever even get out of bed in the morning? Cause you always have tomorrow. That's not the kind of life I want to lead.”
    ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Ted Chiang
    “Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.”
    ― Ted Chiang
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