“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
– Maya Angelou
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Broken places – Ernest Hemingway
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Humble – Carl Sagan
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
– Carl Sagan
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Thought – Albert Einstein
“Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.”
– Albert Einstein
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When women love us – Honoré de Balzac
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.”
– Honoré de Balzac
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Naked picture – Unknown
“Yesterday I accidentally sent a naked picture of myself to everyone in my address book. Not only was it embarrassing but it cost a fortune in stamps.”
– Unknown
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Good design – Paul Graham
“Good design solves the right problem. The typical stove has four burners arranged in a square, and a dial to control each. How do you arrange the dials? The simplest answer is to put them in a row. But this is a simple answer to the wrong question. The dials are for humans to use, and if you put them in a row, the unlucky human will have to stop and think each time about which dial matches which burner. Better to arrange the dials in a square like the burners.”
– Paul Graham
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Night falls – Margaret Atwood
“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket.”
― Margaret Atwood
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Rainbow – Charlie Chaplin
“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down”
― Charlie Chaplin
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Shocking ideas – Paul Graham
“There seems a clear correlation between intelligence and willingness to consider shocking ideas. This isn’t just because smart people actively work to find holes in conventional thinking. Conventions also have less hold over them to start with. You can see that in the way they dress.”
– Paul Graham
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Beauty of their dreams – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
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Real progress – Unknown
“Real progress is more likely to be found in one hundred 1% improvements than one 100% improvement.”
– Unknown
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Do what you can – Theodore Roosevelt
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
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Happiness – Nigarsadatta Maharaj
“Pleasure depends on things, happiness does not. As long as we believe that we need things to make us happy, we shall also believe that in their absence we must be miserable. Mind always shapes itself according to its beliefs. Hence the importance of convincing oneself that one need not be prodded into happiness; that, on the contrary, pleasure is a distraction and a nuisance, for it merely increases the false conviction that one needs to have and do things to be happy, when in reality it is just the opposite. But why talk of happiness at all? You do not think of happiness except when you are unhappy. A man who says “Now I am happy” is between two sorrows, past and future. This happiness is mere excitement caused by relief from pain. Real happiness is utterly unselfconscious. It is best expressed negatively as: “there is nothing wrong with me, I have nothing to worry about”
– Nigarsadatta Maharaj
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It is never too late – George Eliot
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot