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    François-René de Chateaubriand
    “An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
    ― François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
    tags: imitation, originality, writers, writing
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    François-René de Chateaubriand
    “A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.”
    ― François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
    tags: autumn, fall, the-fall
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    François-René de Chateaubriand
    “The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.”
    ― Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
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    Bernhard Schlink
    “There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
    ― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader
    tags: redemption
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    Zhuangzi
    “All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising benevolence and righteousness, but in effect you will be creating a kind of artificiality. Where a model exists, copies will be made of it; where success has been gained, boasting follows; where debate exists, there will be outbreaks of hostility.”
    ― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
    tags: artificiality, benevolence, debate, hostility, righteousness, taoism
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    Zhuangzi
    “The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
    ― Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
    ― Richard Feynman
    tags: answers, questions, science
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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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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: duty, leadership, loyalty, moral-courage
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    Wilhelm von Humboldt
    “I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.”
    ― Wilhelm von Humboldt
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    Wilhelm von Humboldt
    “How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
    ― Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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    Frédéric Bastiat
    “Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
    ― Frederic Bastiat, The Law
    tags: 1850
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    Frédéric Bastiat
    “The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
    ― Frederic Bastiat
    tags: bastiat, france, government, history, liberal, libertarian, philosophy
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: involvement, learning, memory, teaching, understanding
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    David Allen
    “Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.”
    ― David Allen
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    Walter Pater
    “All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.”
    ― Walter Pater
    tags: art, music
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    tags: courage, honesty, truth, truth-telling
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward
    tags: philosophy
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    tags: anarchy, coercion, collectivism, control, equality, free-market, freedom, individual-freedom, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, natural-law, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, universal-ethics, voluntaryism
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Candle in the Wind
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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    François-René de Chateaubriand
    “Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort.”
    ― Chateaubriand
    tags: life, love, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: spring
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
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