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“Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program."]”
― Milton Friedman

“I can think. I can wait. I can fast.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
― Elon Musk

“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
― Naval Ravikant

“Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one”
― Confucius

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“If you act like you can do something, then it will work.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
― Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays