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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: ideas
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    Steve Jobs
    “If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
    ― Steve Jobs
    tags: careers, ideas, ingenuity
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    Jorge Luis Borges
    “A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    John F. Kennedy
    “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: endurance, ideas, inspirational
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    John Cage
    “I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
    ― John Cage
    tags: ideas, inspirational
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, power-of-words, words
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: words
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: causality, causation, cause-and-effect, chance, darwinism, inspirational, kalam-cosmological-argument, luck, naturalism, necessity, serendipity
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

    [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: argument, debate, discussion, persuasion, shouting
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    Christopher Buckley
    “That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.”
    ― Christopher Buckley
    tags: argument, humor, right, thank-you-for-smoking, wrong
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    Wilkie Collins
    “No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
    ― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: argument, dispute, empowerment, men, superiority, wit, women
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
    tags: argument, belief, debate
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    Elizabeth Berg
    “I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.”
    ― Elizabeth Berg, The Pull of the Moon
    tags: life, point-of-view, understanding
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    Dan Stevens
    “It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.”
    ― Dan Stevens
    tags: lesson, life, perspective, questions, rock, storm, viewpoint
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    Naomi Wolf
    “Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
    tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, self-esteem, sexual-violence, sexuality, society
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    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
    tags: reading
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
    tags: evidence, skepticism
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    “An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.”
    ― Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
    tags: gtd, organization
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  • #19
    “Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”
    ― Peter Block
    tags: consulting, organization, productivity
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Christopher Lehman
    “Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)”
    ― Christopher Lehman
    tags: humor, revision, writing
    5 likes



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