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#1

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: dream, hope, live

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#2

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

tags: hell, intelligent, paradise, stupid

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#3

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality

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#4

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: heaven, hell, paradise

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#5

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#6

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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#7

“Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

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#8

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

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#9

“The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: government-corruption, prophetic

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#10

“Past glories are poor feeding.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: past

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#11

“Encyclopedias don’t win wars.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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#12

“You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

tags: epistemology

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#13

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#14

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

tags: doing, inspirational, learning, learning-by-doing, life, practice

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#15

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

tags: pleasure, wisdom

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#16

“Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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#17

“The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

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#18

“A man without regrets cannot be cured.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

tags: conversion, education, redemption, regret, virtue

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#19

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#20

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

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#21

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

tags: choice, inspirational

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#22

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#23

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#24

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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#25

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

tags: opportunity, perseverance, wisdom

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#26

“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?”
― Kautilya

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#27

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson, Zero History

tags: design, engineering, psychoanalysis, psychology

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#28

“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

tags: engineering, money, motivation

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#29

“The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.”
― Christian Cantrell, Containment

tags: engineering, funny, humor, mechanical

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#30

“Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.”
― James Dyson

tags: engineering

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