“Intuition is simply knowing something without knowing how you got there.”
– Daniel Dennett
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Opinion – Bertrand Russell
“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry … (you have) no good reason for thinking as you do.”
– Bertrand Russell
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Betrayed – Margaret Cho
“Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.”
– Margaret Cho
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Responsibility – Admiral Hyman G Rickover
“Responsibility is a unique concept: it can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. Even if you do not recognise it or admit its presence, you cannot escape it. If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance, or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the person who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.”
– Admiral Hyman G Rickover, United States Navy
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Coloured ribbon – Napoleon
“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon”
– Napoleon
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Chaos – George R. R. Martin
“Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail & never get to try again. The fall breaks them and some are given a chance to climb, they cling to the real or the gods or love. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.”
– George R. R. Martin, Littlefinger, Baelish Game of Thrones
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Stupidity – Gustave Flaubert
“Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”
― Gustave Flaubert
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Decency – Anonymous
“Being nice to someone doesn’t entitle you to anything. Decency to others should just be base behaviour.”
– Anonymous
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Introversion – Anonymous
“Introversion has nothing to do with social anxiety, shyness, or fear of people.
It just means that being around people is mentally and physically ‘draining’. Introverts can be extremely social and outgoing and extroverts can be shy and have social anxiety.”
– Anonymous
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Loneliness – Anonymous
“Loneliness is not cured by the presence of people.”
– Anonymous
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Why not – George Bernard Shaw
“You see things; and you say: “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say: “Why not?”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Possibility – Steve Maraboli
“We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should be living greater than that, and it creates a disconnect inside that leads us to feeling empty, unhappy, maybe even depressed.”
― Steve Maraboli
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Happiness – Pat Conroy
“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
– Pat Conroy
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Why not – Danielle Steel
“Life, a good life, a great life is about “Why not?” May we never forget it.”
– Danielle Steel
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Vision – Jonathan Swift
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
– Jonathan Swift