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  • #1
    “We are what we pay attention to, and almost nothing influences our productivity and creativity as much as the information we’ve consumed in the past.”
    ― Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
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  • #2
    Carlo M. Cipolla
    “A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
    ― Carlo M. Cipolla
    tags: stupidity
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  • #3
    Hannah Arendt
    “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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  • #4
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.”
    ― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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  • #5
    “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
    ― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha
    tags: inspirational
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  • #6
    Gautama Buddha
    “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
    tags: inspirational
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  • #7
    Gautama Buddha
    “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, saying, walk
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  • #8
    “You only lose what you cling to.”
    ― Guatama Buddha
    tags: attachment, buddhism
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  • #9
    Gautama Buddha
    “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
    ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
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  • #10
    Gautama Buddha
    “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
    ― Buddha
    tags: anger-management, buddha
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  • #11
    Gautama Buddha
    “Doubt everything. Find your own light.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: beliefs, doubt, faith
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  • #12
    Gautama Buddha
    “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
    ― Buddha
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  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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  • #14
    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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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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  • #16
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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  • #20
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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  • #21
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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  • #22
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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  • #23
    Jeff Foster
    “The life you are trying to understand is identical with the ‘you’ that is trying to understand it.”
    ― Jeff Foster, An Extraordinary Absence: Liberation in the Midst of a Very Ordinary Life
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  • #24
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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  • #25
    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
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  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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  • #27
    Abraham H. Maslow
    “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
    ― Abraham Maslow
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