“Sometimes the best way to get someone’s attention is to stop giving them yours.”
― Wiz Khalifa
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Category: Quotes
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Passions – Epictetus
“Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.”
– Epictetus
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Facts – John Maynard Keynes
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
– John Maynard Keynes
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Criminal – Friedrich Schiller
“It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”
– Friedrich Schiller
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Diplomacy – Winston Churchill
“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”
– Winston Churchill
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Cynicism – Joe Klein
“Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
– Joe Klein
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Preparation – Rainer Maria Rilke
“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Remade – Ursula K. Le Guin
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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Giving – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“In giving, you throw a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Now – Emily Dickinson
“Forever is composed of nows.”
– Emily Dickinson
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New country – Rabindranath Tagore
“Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Incompatible things – W. B. Yeats
“There are three incompatible things which man is always seeking — infinite feeling, infinite battle, infinite repose…”
– W. B. Yeats
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Peace – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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Don’t judge – Unknown
“Don’t judge them for their choices when you don’t know their reasons.”
– Unknown
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Save the world – Bertrand Russell
“To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.”
– Bertrand Russell