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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
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    “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”
    ― John Woods
    tags: programming
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    José N. Harris
    “I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. :)”
    ― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: destiny, self-determination
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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
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    Gautama Buddha
    “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
    ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha
    tags: alone, buddha, buddhism, destiny, fate, future, lone, past, path, present, save, saying, walk
    2068 likes

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  • #7
    “If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
    ― Massimo Vignelli
    tags: design
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    Pelé
    “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
    ― Pele
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “you can do anything you set your mind to”
    ― Ben Franklin
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: funny, inspirational, money
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: advice, apology
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: freedom, jefferson, security, thomas, thomas-jefferson
    1095 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Lost time is never found again.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
    tags: time, wisdom
    783 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: close-mindedness, ignorance, willful-ignorance
    861 likes

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  • #16
    “Learn the rules before you break them.”
    ― Steven Taylor Goldsberry, The Writer's Book Of Wisdom: 101 Rules For Mastering Your Craft
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  • #17
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Jason Fried
    “What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
    ― Jason Fried, Rework
    tags: actions, deeds, inspirational, work-ethic
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  • #19
    “if you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business.”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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    “A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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    “The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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    “Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule,” Nietzsche wrote (before he went mad).”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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    “Why work with a group of people who don’t even like each other?”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
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    “The most successful companies make the core progression—to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets—a part of their founding narrative.”
    ― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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    Epictetus
    “People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
    ― Epictetus, Enchiridion
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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    Jim Rohn
    “Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”
    ― Jim Rohn
    tags: life, wisdom
    355 likes

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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Ray Dalio
    “Truth - more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality - is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes.”
    ― Ray Dalio
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