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    Rosalind Franklin
    “Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors. It seems to me that yours is the more selfish”
    ― Rosalind Franklin
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    “Direct action is not always the best way. It is a far greater victory to make another see through your eyes than to close theirs forever.”
    ― Kriea/Darth Traya
    tags: action, game, kotor-ii, star-wars, the-sith-lords, viewpoints
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: inside-us
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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    John Bunyan
    “a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
    ― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come
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    Orson Scott Card
    “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
    tags: enemy, epiphany, hate, love, understanding
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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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    Erasmus
    “A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.”
    ― Desiderius Erasmus
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    Francis Bacon
    “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...”
    ― Sir Francis Bacon
    tags: inspirational
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “A careful and honest writer does not need to worry about style. As you become proficient in the use of language, your style will emerge, because you yourself will emerge, and when this happens you will find it increasingly easy to breakthrough the barriers that separate you from other minds, other hearts - which is, of course, the purpose of writing, as well as its principal reward.”
    ― Strunk Jr., William, The Elements of Style
    tags: writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: truth
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    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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    Nikola Tesla
    “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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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
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes
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    Francis Bacon
    “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: humor, imagination
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    Francis Bacon
    “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: artist
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “You keep on learning and learning, and pretty soon you learn something no one has learned before.”
    ― Richard Feynman
    tags: knowledge, learning, wisdom
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: books, christopher-hitchens, humour, literature, writing
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: paraphrase-of-congreve
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; he wishes to be told what is.”
    ― Strunk Jr., William, Elements of Style
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    Nikola Tesla
    “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success
    tags: knowledge
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    William Strunk Jr.
    “Fortunately, the act of composition, or creation, disciplines the mind; writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.”
    ― Strunk Jr., William, The Elements of Style
    tags: writing
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Write to Please Yourself.
    When You write to Please Others
    You end up Pleasing No one.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: benjamin-franklin, eternal-youth-empire
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: frugality, learning, life, wealth
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  • #28
    “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
    ― Thomas Campbell
    tags: death, epitaph, immortality, memory, remembrance
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  • #29
    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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  • #30
    Publius Cornelius Tacitus
    “If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
    ― Tacitus
    tags: anarchism, authority, paranoia
    260 likes



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