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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.”
    ― TALEB NASSIM NICHOLAS
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: inspirational, life, yourself
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: art, life
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: abe, enemies, enemy, friend, friends, friendship, life, lincoln
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    John Lennon
    “The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, life, perception, truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Paulo Coelho
    “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    ― Truman Capote
    tags: experience, failure, metaphor, success, wisdom
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”
    ― Buddha
    tags: mission, purpose, work
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    If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out
    “If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: accountability, friends, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose, responsibility, success
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    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    J. Krishnamurti
    “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship, inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: inspirational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
    tags: inspirational
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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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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    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, inspirational
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: belief, bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, strength
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson
    tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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