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    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    ― Steve Jobs
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    Muhammad Asad
    “While I thus cogitate in disquiet and perplexity, half submerged in dark waters of a well in an Arabian oasis, I suddenly hear a voice from the background of my memory, the voice of an old Kurdish nomad: If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. Whereupon, as if by magic, all disquiet leaves me. I begin to look upon myself with distant eyes, as you might look at the pages of a book to read a story from them; and I begin to understand that my life could not have taken a different course. For when I ask myself, 'What is the sum total of my life?' somthing in me seems to answer, 'You have set out to exchange one world for another-to gain a new world for yourself in exchange for an old one which you never really possessed.' And I know with startling clarity that such an undertaking might indeed take an entire lifetime.”
    ― Muhammad Asad
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    Syed Waliullah
    “কেউ কেউ আরো আশা নিয়ে আলিয়া মাদ্রাসায় পড়ে। বিদেশে গিয়ে পোকায় খাওয়া মস্ত মস্ত কেতাব খতম করে। কিন্তু কেতাবে যে বিদ্যে লেখা তা কোন এক বিগত যুগে চড়ায় পড়ে আটকে গেছে। চড়া কেটে সে-বিদ্যেকে এত যুগ অতিক্রম করিয়ে বর্তমান স্রোতের সঙ্গে মিশিয়ে দেবে এমন লোক আবার নেই। অতএব কেতাবগুলোর বিচিত্র অক্ষরগুলো দূরান্ত কোনো এক অতীতকালের অরণ্যে আর্তনাদ করে।”
    ― Syed Waliullah
    tags: ল-লস-ল
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    tags: hunger
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: cruelty, impact
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance
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    Amit Kalantri
    “A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.”
    ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
    tags: adage, advertisement, alliterations, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, blog, blogging, book-writing, breach-of-promise, catch-lines, catchphrases, characters, commitment, contract, creative-writing, deadlines, delivery, essay, inspirational, knowledge, lazy, liar, motivational, movie, movie-dialogue, novel-writing, philosophy, professional, professionalism, proverbs, public-speaking, punchline, quotes, rhetoric, script, script-writing, scriptwriting, slogans, social-networking, speech, speechwriting, story, tag-lines, time-lines, wisdom, work, writing
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    Criss Jami
    “The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: anonymous, beliefs, closet, consequence, cyberspace, cyberspace-internet, extrovert, freedom, gossip, information, intelligence, internet, introvert, libel, media, online, prejudices, propaganda, slander, social-networking, stupidity, technology
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    Joseph Conrad
    “You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.”
    ― Joseph Conrad
    tags: demagoguery, persuasion, propaganda, word
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    Maria Dahvana Headley
    “Maybe we're brokenhearted, but why isn't it rational to have a broken heart? It is utter shit out there, the things you can't control. The world is full of wrongs, and mess and distress and horror. Who can really be blamed for wanting to dig their way down and live in a hole, or disappear into a cave and never be around humans again? If all people do is hurt each other?”
    ― Maria Dahvana Headley, Aerie
    tags: broken-heart, human, shitty-world
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    Lao Tzu
    “If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu
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