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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: education, schooling, university
    2011 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success
    1888 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Learning never exhausts the mind.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: learning
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The knowledge of all things is possible”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning
    565 likes

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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: knowing, urgency, willing
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: procrastination, resistance
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Alexander the Great
    “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

    {His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle}”
    ― Alexander the Great
    tags: aristotle, debt, father, teacher, teachers
    291 likes

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    Alexander the Great
    “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
    ― Alexander the Great
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    Alexander the Great
    “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
    ― Alexander The Great
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    Alexander the Great
    “Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.”
    ― Alexander the Great
    tags: bravery, courage, death, fear
    92 likes

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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave.”
    ― Diogenes
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    Diogenes of Sinope
    “It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
    ― Diogenes of Sinope
    tags: asceticism, cynicism, greed, philosophy
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  • #18
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
    ― Cicero
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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
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    Charles Darwin
    “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
    tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance
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    Charles Darwin
    “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
    ― Charles Darwin
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    Charles Darwin
    “An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
    ― Charles Darwin
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    Charles Darwin
    “One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
    tags: biology, evolution, natural-selection, science
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    Charles Darwin
    “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
    ― Charles Darwin
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  • #25
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    tags: philosophy, taoism
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  • #26
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: honesty, self-delusion
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
    tags: education, mind, social-anxiety
    374 likes

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  • #28
    Voltaire
    “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism
    tags: mortality
    1611 likes

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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
    1348 likes



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