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    Aldous Huxley
    “Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays
    tags: consistency
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, imagination
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    ― C.E.M. Joad
    tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    “Not everything that can be counted counts.
    Not everything that counts can be counted.”
    ― William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: a casual introduction to sociological thinking
    tags: beliefs, meaning, misattributed-to-einstein
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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
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, self-mastery
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: atheism, god, religion
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: perfection
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
    ― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World
    tags: misattributed-to-plato, paraphrased, people, play
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    Plato
    “Those who tell the stories rule society.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
    ― Plato
    tags: aphorism
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “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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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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    Frank Zappa
    “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: music, philosophy, progress
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    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
    tags: philosophy
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    Bertrand Russell
    “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
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