A Curated Selection of Quotes (October 2024)

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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

— Robert Frost

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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"There's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

— Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2)

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“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”

— Buddha

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"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."

— Thomas Wolfe

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“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”

— Erich Fromm

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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

— Erich Fromm

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“The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it.”

— Erich Fromm

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"I've found that I'm often right when I least want to be."

— Sean Illing

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“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”

— Alexandre Dumas

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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

— Audre Lorde

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“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”

— Buddha

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"It's better to learn to pivot than to learn to plan.

— Kendra Adachi

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"I remain best friends with my childhood best friends and I'm pretty sure the secret to doing so is finding a group of folks who are all bad at making new friends."

— Dave Pell

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"The brain is shaped by relevance, by what is important to you, by what you spend your time on."

- David Eagleman

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"The brain is most flexible—when you're curious about something."

- David Eagleman

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“Giving is a shortcut to happiness.”

- Arianna Huffington

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“You can make sentences too long. But it’s hard to make them too short.”

– Seth Godin

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"Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable."

- Natalie Clifford Barney

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“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”

— Pythagoras

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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

— Carl Rogers

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