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#1

“Ums Buch ist mir nicht bange.
Das Buch hält sich noch lange.

Man kann es bei sich tragen
und überall aufschlagen.

Sofort und ohne Warten
kann dann das Lesen starten.

Im Sitzen, Liegen, Knien
ganz ohne Batterien.

Beim Fliegen, Fahren, Gehen –
ein Buch bleibt niemals stehen.

Beim Essen, Kochen, Würzen
ein Buch kann nicht abstürzen.

Die meisten andren Medien
tun sich von selbst erledigen.

Kaum sind sie eingeschaltet,
heißts schon: Die sind veraltet!

Und nicht mehr kompatibel –
marsch in den Abfallkübel

Zu Bändern, Filmen, Platten,
die wir einst gerne hatten,

und die nur noch ein Dreck sind.
Weil die Geräte weg sind

und niemals wiederkehren,
gibts nichts zu sehn, zu hören.

Es sei denn, man ist klüger
und hält sich gleich an Bücher,

die noch in hundert Jahren
das sind, was sie stets waren:

Schön lesbar und beguckbar,
so stehn sie unverrückbar

In Schränken und Regalen
und die Benutzer strahlen:

Hab'n die sich gut gehalten!
Das Buch wird nicht veralten.”
― Robert Gernhardt, Im Glück und anderswo: Gedichte

tags: book, buch, gedicht, poem

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#2

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth

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#3

“Zeit hat man nicht, Zeit nimmt man sich!”
― MRM

tags: time, zeit

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#4

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#5

“Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.”
― Paul J. Meyer

tags: communication, relationship, success

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#6

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#7

“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”
― Georg Lichtenberg

tags: change, social-justice

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#8

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#9

“Limitations summon creativity!”
― MRM

tags: creativity

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#10

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

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#11

“Every time you place a stone on the board you are exposing something of yourself. It is not just a piece of slate, shell or plastic. You have entrusted to that stone your feelings, your individuality, your will power, and once it is played there is no going back. Each stone carries a great responsibility on your behalf.”
― Kajiwara Takeo, The Direction of Play

tags: baduk, go, igo, weiqi

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#12

“While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.”
― Edward Lasker

tags: baduk, go, igo, weiqi

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#13

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

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#14

“We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
― David Brower

tags: earth, environmentalism, legacy

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#15

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: language

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#16

“Hohe Bildung kann man dadurch beweisen, daß man die kompliziertesten Dinge auf einfache Art zu erläutern versteht.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bildung, erklären

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#17

“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.”
― Satoru Iwata

tags: ceo, computer-programming, inspirational, nintendo, science, video-games

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#18

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, ego, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstandings, overthinking, pain, perception, perspective, questions, reading-into-everything, reading-into-things, second-quessing, self-esteem, self-improvement

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#19

“Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

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#20

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, success

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#21

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

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#22

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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#23

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#24

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

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#25

“Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never have sex. Or worse, whatever that is. But to me and more and more people I know, being a nerd or a geek means having passion, power, intelligence. Being a nerd just means there is something in the world that you care deeply about—be it twelve-sided dice, a favorite sports team, your new laptop or Night Rider.”
― Olivia Munn, Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek

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#26

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: books, brandon-sanderson, learning, scholarship, the-way-of-kings, wit

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#27

“When did having a life become an event you had to schedule?”
― Karen Marie Moning, Spell of the Highlander

tags: coffee-mug, ginger, highlander, jessi, karen-marie-moning, life, planning, spell-of-the-highlander

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#28

“I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 10 Books

tags: anne-of-green-gables, gardening

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#29

“There's so much scope for imagination!”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: children, fantasy, imagination

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#30

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: reading-books

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