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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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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
    “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art, creativity, leonardo-da-vinci
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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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    “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
    ― Tom Peters
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: animal-rights, animals, murder, vegetarianism
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: faith, wisdom
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: learning
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: knowing, urgency, willing
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The knowledge of all things is possible”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Water is the driving force in nature.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: nature, water
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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
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    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    ― Linda Grayson
    tags: chocolate, friendship
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  • #21
    John Ruskin
    “To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
    ― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
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    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    tags: book, hunger, weapon
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    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    ― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
    tags: childhood, disease, literature
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    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    ― Galileo Galilei
    tags: inspirational
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The human bird shall take his first flight,filling the words with amazement,all writings with his fame,and bringing eternal glory to those whose nest whence he sprang.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
    He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"
    I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: finnick, humour, hunger-games
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    Suzanne Collins
    “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.”
    ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
    tags: boggs, finnick, funny, humour, hunger-games, katniss, mockingjay, odair, suzanne-collins, witty
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: humility, throne
    1893 likes



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