“Hire character. Train skill.”
– Unknown
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Author: SS
My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
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Raise your words – Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
– Rumi
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Classes in life – Rainer Maria Rilke
“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.”
– Epicurus
“Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.”
– W. B. Yeats
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
“He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”
– David Hume
“The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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Computers – James Magary
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.”
– James Magary
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Drink – Ann Landers
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
– Ann Landers
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Sides – Unknown
“We’re all on the same side. Everyone.
We all have the same goal. We all just want happiness.
There isn’t any need to fuss about it.
Just recognize that my happiness depends on your happiness, vice-versa, and et cetera.
No one can really be happy with themselves unless they feel free to be themselves.”
– Unknown
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Campaign – Mario Cuomo
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
– Mario Cuomo
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Politicians – Mario Cuomo
“People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: ‘Don’t decide what you don’t have to decide.’ That’s not evasion, it’s wisdom.”
– Mario Cuomo