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#1

“The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

tags: helping-others, service, volunteerism

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#2

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#3

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
― Philo

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#4

“Ammon Johns has probably forgotten more things about online marketing and branding than most of us have ever known.

Ammon Johns is unique. He has a remarkably long career in an industry that does not really do long careers. He successfully synthesizes the knowledge and experience of the past with a thorough knowledge and understanding of today.

I have had the pleasure of seeing Ammon’s mind at work and it is safe to say that I simply cannot recommend him highly enough. The companies that work with him are the ones that enjoy the rarest of things in today’s world: a competitive advantage.”
― David Amerland

tags: ammonize, ammonjohns, blackknight

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#5

“The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It's not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

tags: failure, flawless, learning, mistakes, perfect, perfection, perfectionism, prcrastinate, procrastination, self-sabotage, surrender

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#6

“Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.”
― Philo

tags: curiosity, education, learning

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#7

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the publication of the 'Origin of Species'; and who have watched, not without astonishment, the rapid and complete change which has been effected both inside and outside the boundaries of the scientific world in the attitude of men's minds towards the doctrines which are expounded in that great work, can have been prepared for the extraordinary manifestation of affectionate regard for the man, and of profound reverence for the philosopher, which followed the announcement, on Thursday last, of the death of Mr Darwin.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley

tags: affection, astonishment, charles-darwin, darwin, doctrines, interest, knowledge, manifestation, obituary, origin-of-species, philosopher, progress, regard, reverence, science, scientific

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#8

“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”
― Deepak Chopra

tags: abstract, balance, beauty, cosmos, deepak-chopra, energy, harmony, life, logic, math, mathematics, mind, mirrror, order, orderliness, peace, quote, quotes, reflaction, reflect, universal, universe, value, values, wisdom

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#9

“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse”
― Plato, Apology

tags: philos, plato

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#10

“It is better to let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
― Paul L. Maier, The Constantine Codex

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#11

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

tags: comedy, life, yourself

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#12

“Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.”
― David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

tags: definition-of-social-media, social-media, social-media-mind

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#13

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#14

“This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?”
― Dada Bhagwan

tags: fault, faultless, flawless, spiritual, spiritual-quotes

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#15

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

tags: argument, trolls

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#16

“The only things flawless about me are my flaws.”
― Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

tags: flaw, flawless, flaws, human, humanity, life, love-quotes-and-sayings

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#17

“Capitalism is not a synonym for free markets.”
― Richard A. Posner

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#18

“And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

tags: pretend, price, sex, silence

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#19

“I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: argument, correct, debate, knowledge, pretend, right, speech, winning

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#20

“It's like pretending to be Santa and then stabbing someone with a candy cane!”
― J.B. Stanley, Chili Con Corpses

tags: act, christmas, humor, murder, pretend, santa

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#21

“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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#22

“Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.”
― David Amerland, The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

tags: social-media, social-media-addiction, social-media-qualities, social-network-tropes

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#23

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

tags: friendship

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#24

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

tags: actions, habits, values

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#25

“Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

tags: intellectualism, leadership, politics, popularity

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#26

“The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That’s the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT”
― Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

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#27

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling, but at its best politics is an imperfect means to an altruistic end.”
― Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

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#28

“Or, as Jackson would have said: The people, sir-the people will set things right.”
― Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

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#29

“Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.”
― Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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#30

“In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists;”
― Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

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