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#1

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

tags: life, luxury

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#2

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

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#3

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

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#4

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

tags: growth, poetry

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#5

“Differences of opinion may occur between husband and wife. But one's objective in marriage is never to win an argument, but to build an eternal relationship of love.”
― Russell M. Nelson, Accomplishing the Impossible: What God Does, What We Can Do

tags: bond, bonding, compromise, disagreement, marriage

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#6

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#7

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

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#8

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

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#9

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.”
― John Cage

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#10

“Every something is an echo of nothing”
― John Cage

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#11

“I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.”
― John Cage

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#12

“What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.”
― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

tags: music, zen

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#13

“Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck
passing by a music school?
Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?
What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?”
― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

tags: music

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#14

“It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.”
― John Cage

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#15

“Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.”
― John Cage

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#16

“I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being in any way in the way.”
― John Cage, Composition in Retrospect

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#17

“You can feel an emotion, just don't think that it's so important.”
― John Cage

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#18

“Farting, don't think, just fart.”
― John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72

tags: farting, farts

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#19

“I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.”
― John Cage

tags: emotion, john-cage, zen

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#20

“The usefulness of the useless is good news for artists, for art serves no useful purpose. It has to do with changing minds and spirits.”
― John Cage

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#21

“Every something is an echo of nothing.”
― John Cage

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#22

“I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.”
― John Cage

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#23

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage

tags: ideas, inspirational

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#24

“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.”
― John Cage

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#25

“Nothing more then nothing can be said.
We make our lives by what we love.
Being American, having been trained to be sentimental, I fought for noises … when the war came along, I decided to use only quiet sounds. There seemed to me to be no truth, no good, in anything big.
Somebody asked Debussy how he wrote music. He said: “I take all the tones there are, leave out he one’s I don’t want, and use all the others”. Satie said: “When I was young, people told me; you’ll see when you’re fifty years old. Now I’m fifty. I’ve seen nothing”.
Slowly as the talk goes on, we are getting nowhere – and that is a pleasure.
It is not irritating to be where one is, it is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep.
All I know about method is that when I’m not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I’m working, it is quit clear I know nothing.”
― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

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#26

“I was going to post something on Facebook until I asked myself why. David E Love, Journalist”
― David E Love

tags: facebook, social-media, social-media-addiction

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#27

“Extremism will generate both positive and negative reactions, or “engagements.” Facebook measures engagement by the number of clicks, “likes,” shares, and comments. This design feature—or flaw, if you care about the quality of knowledge and debate—ensures that the most inflammatory material will travel the farthest and the fastest. Sober, measured accounts of the world have no chance on Facebook. And when Facebook dominates our sense of the world and our social circles, we all potentially become carriers of extremist nonsense”
― Siva Vaidhyanathan, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

tags: democracy, extremism, facebook, information

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#28

“Since social media arrived social skills have declined. Fake became real and narcissists thrive!”
― Sanjo Jendayi

tags: facebook, fake, instagram, narcissists, real, sanjo-jendayi, social-media, social-skills

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#29

“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, be-in-touch, best-friend, best-friends, cellphone, cellphones, check-on, contact, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, facebook, families, family, friend, friends, gnome, gnomes, good-morning, greet, greetings, humor, humour, in-touch, insightful, instagram, internet, keep-in-touch, letter, letters, long-time-to-see, love, loved, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mobile-phone, mobile-phones, phone, phone-call, phone-calls, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, sms, smses, social-media, stranger, text, texts, thought-provoking, thoughtful, twitter

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#30

“What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution.”
― Germany Kent

tags: best-practices, branding, content, content-marketing, content-strategy, cyberspace-internet, digital-age, digital-citizens, digital-citizenship, digital-culture, digital-etiquette, digital-footprint, digital-life, digital-marketer, digital-marketing, digital-media, digital-skills, ed-tech, ethics, ethics-and-moral-philosophy, etiquette-and-attitude, etiquette-rules, facebook, facebook-quotes, germany-kent, germany-kent-quotes, hate-speech, internet, internet-etiquette, internet-manners, internet-marketing, kindness-to-others, linkedin, mannerisms, manners-quotes, marketing-digital, netiquette, netiquette-rules, netiquette-words, online-ethics, online-etiquette, personal-branding, personal-branding-reputation, pinterest, pinterest-quotes, post, reputation-management, reputation-quotes, responsibility, responsibility-of-everyone, responsibility-quotes, responsible, seo, social-change, social-education, social-intelligence, social-media, social-media-addiction, social-media-advice, social-media-audience, social-media-behavior, social-media-behaviour, social-media-branding, social-media-for-authors, social-media-marketing, social-media-mind, social-media-post, social-media-posting, social-media-quotes, social-media-tips, social-media-today, social-networking, stop-bullying, the-hope-guru, think-before-you-post, think-before-you-tweet, think-twice, tips, tips-for-teens, twitter, twitter-addiction, twitter-advice, twitter-audiences, twitter-mind, twitter-nation, twitter-quotes, web-marketing, what-you-tweet, you-are-what-you-tweet, youth, youth-age, youth-outreach

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