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#1

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer

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#2

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

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#3

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

tags: independence

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#4

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: john-galt

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#5

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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#6

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, respect

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#7

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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#8

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

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#9

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom

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#10

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom

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#11

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems

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#12

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

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#13

“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: relativity, time

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#14

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, self-improvement, self-knowledge

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#15

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: goals

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#16

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: independent-thought

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#17

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: bigotry, fission, fusion

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#18

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: problem-solving

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#19

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: club, fight

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#20

“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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#21

“Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

tags: hope, inspirational, wise

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#22

“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
― Anne Frank

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#23

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: humor, science

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#24

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

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#25

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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#26

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: force, peace

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#27

“Because women don't have to be men's equals to be considered contenders; they have to be better. That's the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

tags: misogyny, patriarchy, sexism

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#28

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source

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