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Interesting and unfashionable – Peter Thiel

“If it’s popular and most people agree with it, walk on. Interesting and unfashionable is where the real fun is – and, likely, the values of tomorrow.”
– Peter Thiel

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Wrong – Unknown

“I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
– Unknown

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Imagination – David Geffen

“I’ve always thought that each person invented himself. We are each a figment of our own imagination. Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.”
– David Geffen

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Value – Unknown

“Always gift people in the currency they value.”
– Unknown

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Books – Neil Gaiman

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
– Neil Gaiman

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Direction – Dr. Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”
– Dr. Seuss

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Vision – Carl Jung

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung

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Great arguments – Adam Grant

“The highest form of debate isn’t about one person declaring victory. It’s about both people making a discovery.
The goal isn’t to defend your reasons and attack theirs. It’s to sharpen your reasoning.
Good arguments shift what you think. Great arguments change how you think.”
– Adam Grant

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Pain – James Baldwin

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin

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Knowing something – Richard Feynman

“There’s a huge difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
We talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.”
– Richard Feynman

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Terms – T.S. Eliot

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
– T.S. Eliot

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Mistakes – James Joyce

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce

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Uncertainty – Tim Ferriss

“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
– Tim Ferriss

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No one loves – Aristotle

“No one loves the man he fears.”
– Aristotle

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Love – Albert Camus

“It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
– Albert Camus