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#1

“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
― Thomas Carlyle

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#2

“No pressure, no diamonds”
― Mary Case

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#3

“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”
― Thomas Carlyle

tags: argument, belief, debate

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#4

“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
― Thomas Carlyle

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#5

“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ”
― Thomas Carlyle

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#6

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
― Thomas Carlyle

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#7

“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”
― Thomas Carlyle

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#8

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
― Thomas Carlyle

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#9

“I was raised to face any challenge.”
― Louis Zamperini, Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

tags: challenges

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#10

“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”
― Louis Zamperini

tags: influential, inspirational, powerful

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#11

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

tags: answers, man, questions, thinking

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#12

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”
― Voltaire

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#13

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

tags: denial, fear, reality, truth, truth-hurts, truth-quotes, truths

851 likes

#14

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
― Voltaire

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#15

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic

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#16

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
― Voltaire

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#17

“If wishes were rainbows we'd all have gold”
― Steve Sagarra

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#18

“We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

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#19

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
― Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

tags: humanity, perfection

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#20

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

tags: philosophy

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#21

“From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: humanity, moralism

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