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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
    3431 likes

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    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy
    1465 likes

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    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: jane-eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Lauren DeStefano
    “Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”
    ― Lauren DeStefano, Fever
    tags: lies, truth
    173 likes

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    Alain de Botton
    “One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: activity, disappointment
    399 likes

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    “I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”
    ― Donna Lynn Hope
    tags: pain, resisting, surrender, temptation
    40 likes

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    Alain de Botton
    “As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love
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    Albert Camus
    “But memory is less disposed to compromise”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: compromise, disposition, forger, memory
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    “Battlefields are unpredictable places – even under a flag of truce.”
    ― Star Trek Enterprise
    tags: compromise, spiritual-warfare
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    Amit Kalantri
    “If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.”
    ― Amit Kalantri
    tags: adjust, adjustment, compromise, compromises, fail, failure, failures, first-time, human, humans, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, persistence, philosophy, second-time, stubborn, success, third-time, unchanging, victory, win, winning, wisdom, wisdom-quotes
    9 likes

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    Tim Fargo
    “Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: compromise, mediocrity, success, winning
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    Anthony Liccione
    “We shall become, or we shall overcome.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: become, come-to-be, endure, obstacles, overcome, settle, strength
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Somebody is born.
    Somebody goes to school.
    Somebody learns to conform.
    Somebody types a CV.
    Somebody gets a job.
    Somebody follows orders.
    Somebody gets a golden watch.
    And then, eventually,
    Somebody dies.
    And, a Nobody is buried.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
    tags: average, conform, conformity, cv, education, employee, employment, exploitation, golden-watch, independent-thinking, job, life, mediocre, purpose, retirement, school, work
    31 likes

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    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    ― E.L. Doctorow
    tags: writing
    4686 likes

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    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: revision, writing
    1119 likes

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    Daphne du Maurier
    “Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear”
    ― Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
    tags: boredom, fear
    129 likes

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    Daphne du Maurier
    “You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.”
    ― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek
    42 likes

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    Dan Brown
    “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
    tags: desire, fear, human-nature
    2707 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: desire, love
    951 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: deception, naive, romance, world
    462 likes

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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: deception
    963 likes

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    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: chemistry, relationships
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    L. Frank Baum
    “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
    ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    tags: heartbreak, relationships
    1263 likes

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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: diplomacy, empowerment, life, relationships, subtlety
    917 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
    tags: advice, children
    500 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
    11454 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
    3727 likes

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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: music, perception
    1543 likes



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