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    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Diggers
    tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
    ― Machiavelli
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: education, schooling, university
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
    1668 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: faith, wisdom
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  • #9
    The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
    “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: cats
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I love those who can smile in trouble...”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: adversity, attitude, cheerfulness
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: learning
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Douglas Adams
    “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: reality
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    Douglas Adams
    “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
    1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
    2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
    3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
    tags: self-determination, self-responsibility, timidity
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  • #21
    “It is a risk to love.
    What if it doesn't work out?
    Ah, but what if it does.”
    ― Peter McWilliams
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    Anne Lamott
    “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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    Charlie Kaufman
    “You are what you love, not what loves you. ”
    ― Charlie Kaufman
    tags: adaptation
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    John Dryden
    “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
    ― John Dryden
    tags: adaptation, change, habit, self-improvement
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    Jacob Nordby
    “Writer's block is just another name for fear.”
    ― Jacob Nordby
    tags: amwriting, creativity, fear, self-expression, writers, writers-block, writers-on-writing, writers-quotes
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    Erica Jong
    “All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
    ― Erica Jong, The New Writer's Handbook 2007: A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft and Career
    tags: creative-process, drafting, psychology, writers-block, writing
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    Larry Kahaner
    “Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages.”
    ― Larry Kahaner
    tags: authors, inspirational, muses, writers-block, writing
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    Larry Kahaner
    “I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.”
    ― Larry Kahaner, AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War
    tags: inspirational, writers-block, writing-life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
    tags: crowds, intelligence, mob-rule, mobs, people
    763 likes

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    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
    tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing
    3689 likes



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