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    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    ― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
    tags: destiny, path
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    William Jennings Bryan
    “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
    ― William Jennings Bryan
    tags: achieved, change, choice, destiny
    1363 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: destiny, life
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    “I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
    ― Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
    tags: chance, death, destiny, life
    545 likes

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    Thomas Sowell
    “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    702 likes

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    Thomas Sowell
    “People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
    tags: simplicity, truth
    349 likes

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    Thomas Sowell
    “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Intellect is not wisdom.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
    tags: intellectuals, society
    284 likes

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  • #10
    Thomas Sowell
    “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader
    226 likes

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    Thomas Sowell
    “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: thomas-sowell
    181 likes

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    Thomas Sowell
    “The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Judith Martin
    “There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.”
    ― Judith Martin
    tags: affection, dating, eating, entertainment, etiquette, food, romance
    587 likes

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    Judith Martin
    “The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.”
    ― Judith Martin
    tags: growing-up, taxes, teenagers
    61 likes

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    Judith Martin
    “Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
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    ― Judith Martin
    tags: charming, humor, manners
    45 likes

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    Judith Martin
    “When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.”
    ― Judith Martin
    tags: criticism, praise, self-esteem, virtues
    20 likes

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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “Do nothing that is of no use”
    ― Musashi Miyamoto, Book of Five Rings
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  • #21
    Miyamoto Musashi
    “Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
    213 likes

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  • #22
    Miyamoto Musashi
    “All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Miyamoto Musashi
    “Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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  • #24
    Miyamoto Musashi
    “The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”
    ― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
    12746 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45298 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
    11220 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
    2110 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness
    1430 likes



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