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    Connie Willis
    “That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
    ― Connie Willis, Passage
    tags: death, life, literature, messages
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    Harriet Tubman
    “If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.”
    ― Harriet Tubman
    tags: chains, freedom, harriet-tubman, slavery
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    Albert Einstein
    “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, independent-thought
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    Joseph Sobran
    “Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.”
    ― Joseph Sobran
    tags: compassion, greed, need
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    Ayn Rand
    “If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: excess, over-indulgence, overdoing
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    Morgan Housel
    “Money’s greatest intrinsic value—and this can’t be overstated—is its ability to give you control over your time.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    Morgan Housel
    “Planning is important, but the most important part of every plan is to plan on the plan not going according to plan.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    Alfie Kohn
    “The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.”
    ― Alfie Kohn
    tags: education, kids, learning, parenting, school
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    Ayn Rand
    “Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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    Tom Heehler
    “The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.”
    ― Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases
    tags: critical-thinking, education, empiricism, learning, philosophy, rationality
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    Morgan Housel
    “Savings can be created by spending less. You can spend less if you desire less. And you will desire less if you care less about what others think of you.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    ― Frederick Douglass
    tags: strength
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    Ayn Rand
    “When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    Charles T. Munger
    “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.”
    ― Charlie Munger
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    Morgan Housel
    “But there’s only one way to stay wealthy: some combination of frugality and paranoia.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    “A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.”
    ― Harry Browne
    tags: benefits, free-market, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, socialism, state, statism, voluntaryism
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.”
    ― arthur schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: reading, science
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Morgan Housel
    “The only way to be wealthy is to not spend the money that you do have. It’s not just the only way to accumulate wealth; it’s the very definition of wealth.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    Thomas Sowell
    “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: economics, politics
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    Morgan Housel
    “we tell ourselves stories to fill in the gaps of what are effectively blind spots.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    Ludwig von Mises
    “It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.”
    ― Ludwig von Mises
    tags: anarcho-capitalism, ancap, business, capitalism, free, free-markets, free-trade, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, market, non-aggression-principle, peace, peaceful, prosperity, society, trade, voluntaryism
    16 likes

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    D.H. Lawrence
    “Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
    ― D.H. Lawrence
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    Morgan Housel
    “1. More than I want big returns, I want to be financially unbreakable. And if I’m unbreakable I actually think I’ll get the biggest returns, because I’ll be able to stick around long enough for compounding to work wonders.”
    ― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
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    Henri Poincaré
    “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.”
    ― Henri Poincaré, Science and Method
    tags: beauty, harmony, inspiration, inspirational, intelligence, intimate, life, meaning-of-life, motivational, nature, order, pure, quailty, science
    179 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: devotion, leaders, religious
    370 likes

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    Jeff Bezos
    “We’ve made mistakes, doozies like the Fire Phone and many other things that just didn’t work out. I won’t list all of our failed experiments, but the big winners pay for thousands of failed experiments.”
    ― Jeff Bezos, Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: napoleaon-bonaparte
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    Abraham H. Maslow
    “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
    ― Abraham Maslow
    tags: random
    211 likes



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