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    Joseph Heller
    “What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
    ― Gustav Flaubert
    tags: writing-life
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    “Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”
    ― Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    tags: thinking-quotes
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    Maya Angelou
    “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: misattributed-to-maya-angelou
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
    tags: discipline, freedom
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why
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    Bruce Lee
    “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: goals, vision
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    John Galsworthy
    “Life calls the tune, we dance.”
    ― John Galsworthy
    tags: choice, determinism, fate, free, freedom, will
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    Socrates
    “In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inner-self
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    John Mayer
    “If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
    ― John Mayer
    tags: commitment, dedication, imagination, inspiration
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    Isaac Asimov
    “the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: appearance, asimov, foundation, rotten, tree
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: gratitude, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thoughts
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Dana Hewitt
    “She loved the smell of wet dirt the way others might love the smell of roses.”
    ― Dana Hewitt, New City
    tags: adventure, art, ceramics, love, nature, pottery
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: affair, affection, attachment, bond, care, caring, close, emotion, emotions, fellow-feeling, friendship, friendships, game, hide-and-seek, intimacy, love-affair, lover, lovers, michael-bassey-johnson, mutual-attachment, passion, play, relationship, seeker, sharing, true-love, truth
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
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    J.M. Barrie
    “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
    ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: sacrifice
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    Voltaire
    “Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: doubt
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    James Baldwin
    “Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.”
    ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
    tags: 71, reciprocity
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    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez
    tags: bereavement, broken-hearted, heartbreak
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    Andy Warhol
    “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
    ― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
    tags: change, initiative, time
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.”
    ― Zamyatin, We
    tags: anticipation, bloom, flowers, knowledge, timeliness, waiting
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    Douglas Adams
    “If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: relativity
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
    tags: health, humanity
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    Peter F. Drucker
    “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
    ― Peter F. Drucker
    tags: commitment, persistence, planning, resolve
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    Mother Teresa
    “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “We certainly are an odd bunch."
    "Yes. Seven people. Odd.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: brandon-sanderson, humor, mathematics, mgg, oathbringer, pattern, the-stormlight-archives
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Henry Ford
    “I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: innovation
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