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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
    tags: information, knowledge, problems
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    Luo Guanzhong
    “It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.”
    ― Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2
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    Luo Guanzhong
    “Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.”
    ― Luo Guanzhong, Three Kingdoms
    tags: propriety, virtue
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    Why The Lucky Stiff
    “when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
    ― Why The Lucky Stiff
    tags: inspirational, programming
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: planning, preparation
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    tags: nietzsche, pollution, purity
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, success
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, originality, unique
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “What one man can invent, another can discover.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes] Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII
    tags: freedom, liberty, slavery
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: perseverance, progress, thoughtful
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    ― Robert Ingersoll
    tags: adversity, character, power
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: beauty, photography, portraits
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: humor
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
    tags: nietzsche, superman, will-to-power
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: incrementalism
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: science
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    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: doubt, science, science-vs-religion
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    “[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
    ― Stephen W. Hawking
    tags: humor, science, stupidity
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
    tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “You see, but you do not observe.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia
    tags: kindlehighlight
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel
    1557 likes



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