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#1

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#2

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: truth, values

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#3

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: books

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#4

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

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#5

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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#6

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#7

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

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#8

“A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)”
― Peter Newmark, Manual de traducción (Linguistica / Linguistic)

tags: translation

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#9

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”
― Nicholas Butler

tags: expert, knowledge, research

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#10

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

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#11

“When things go wrong, don't go with them.”
― Elvis Presley

tags: giving-up, hopelessness, life, perseverance, positivity

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#12

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#13

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#14

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”
― H. James Harrington

tags: control, measure, measurement, quality, understand, understanding

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#15

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

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#16

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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#17

“Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don’t do it. If you think this doesn’t apply to you, you’re wrong—it does.”
― Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

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#18

“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”
― Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

tags: actions

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#19

“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

tags: peace

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#20

“Jesus has now many lovers of the heavenly kingdom but few bearers of His cross.”
― Thomas à Kempis, Imitation Of Christ

tags: inspirational

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#21

“By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by
simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention,
purity in the affection.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

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#22

“The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

tags: blessings, grace, self-denial

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#23

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#24

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

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