“Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.”
– Omar Ibn Al-Halif
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Wrong ― Noam Chomsky
“If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.”
― Noam Chomsky
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Attention ― Wiz Khalifa
“Sometimes the best way to get someone’s attention is to stop giving them yours.”
― Wiz Khalifa
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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
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
– Neil Gaiman
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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