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    Paul Auster
    “Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
    ― Paul Auster
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    Socrates
    “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
    ― Socrates
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  • #3
    Marianne Moore
    “... we
    do not admire what
    we cannot understand.”
    ― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
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    Woody Allen
    “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
    ― Woody Allen
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    “If all good people were clever; and all clever people were good, the world would be nicer than ever what it possibly could.
    But somehow 'tis seldom or never the two hit it off as they should; the good are so harsh to the clever,the clever so rude to the good.”
    ― Elizabeth Wordsworth
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  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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  • #7
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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  • #8
    Donella H. Meadows
    “A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path

    [in Mediated Modeling page 43]”
    ― Donella Meadows
    tags: life
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  • #9
    Brian Herbert
    “The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
    willingness to learn is a choice.”
    ― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
    tags: learning
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    Brian Herbert
    “How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.”
    ― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
    tags: life-lessons, remembering
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    Brian Herbert
    “The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can
    only be outgrown.”
    ― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen
    tags: life-lessons
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  • #12
    “The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.”
    ― Shad Helmstetter, What To Say When You Talk To Your Self
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    Bertrand Russell
    “The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: political-philosophy
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  • #14
    José Saramago
    “Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
    ― José Saramago, The Double
    tags: double, order, perception
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

    If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: antoine-de-saint-exupéry, motivation, teaching
    633 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
    18232 likes

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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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    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting
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    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Alan Alda
    tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: education, learning, lifelong-learning, self-education
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    Alfred North Whitehead
    “It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead
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    Alfred North Whitehead
    “Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead
    tags: wisdom
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    Alfred North Whitehead
    “Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead
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    Alfred North Whitehead
    “Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.”
    ― Alfred North Whitehead
    tags: education, learning
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  • #25
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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    Toni Morrison
    “I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
    ― Toni Morrison
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    Samuel R. Delany
    “Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader’s mind — vividly, forcefully — that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn’t.”
    ― Samuel R. Delany, About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
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    Luke Rhinehart
    “Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.”
    ― Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man
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  • #29
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    “I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed . . . equally well.”
    ― J. S. Bach
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  • #30
    Milton Berle
    “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
    ― Milton Berle
    tags: change, opportunity, self-determination, wisdom
    755 likes



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