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“Growing Old is Mandatory - Growing Up Is Optional”
― Chili Davis

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help you build theirs”
― Tony Gaskins

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back”
― Rick Warren

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.”
― Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
― Ayn Rand

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”
― Jaggi Vasudev

“You have to work with people who make you feel insecure. Because they push you to work better. It is part of inherent learning”
― Sundar Pichai

“Courage isn't the abscence of fear. But rather the jugdement something else is more important than fear”
― Ambrose Redmoon

“The relevant question in psychiatry shouldn't be what's wrong with you, but what happened to you?”
― Eleanor Longden

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

“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?”
― Stephen Levine

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”
― Eric Schmidt w.r.t. privacy

“Programmers are Tiny Gods”
― Derek Powazek

“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold”
― blue_beetle on Metacafe w.r.t. social networking websites collecting user data

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle”
― Steve Jobs

“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build”
― Steve Jobs

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
― Steve Jobs

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. 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

“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin

“Holding A Grudge Is Letting Someone Live Rent Free In Your Head”
― Anonymous

“Set out to correct the world's wrongs and you'll almost certainly end up adding to them”
― Harold Finch in Person of Interest

“I can't remember to forget you”
― Leonard Shelby in Memento

“Who can say what the truth is, when the mind becomes trained to lie to itself?”
― /u/CRYMTYPHON

“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer”
― Steven McGeady

“I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect (compared to animals or other living beings), only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference”
― Charles Darwin