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    Giacomo Casanova
    “The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
    ― Casanova, The Story of My Life
    tags: pleasure
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: happiness, man, trouble
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: independent-thought, self-determination, self-expression
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: honesty, integerity
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “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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    Warren Buffett
    “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: planning
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    Warren Buffett
    “Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: honesty
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    Warren Buffett
    “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.”
    ― Warren Buffett
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    Warren Buffett
    “I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: business, habits, hare, inspirational-life, reading, think, thinking, tortoise, warren-buffet
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    Warren Buffett
    “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: focus, success
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    Warren Buffett
    “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
    ― Warren Buffett
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    Warren Buffett
    “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: politics
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    Warren Buffett
    “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
    ― Warren Buffett
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    Bill Gates
    “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: mistakes
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    Bill Gates
    “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
    ― Bill Gates
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    Bill Gates
    “I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: reading
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    Bill Gates
    “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: bill-gates, inspirational, life
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    Henry Kissinger
    “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
    tags: humor
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    Henry Kissinger
    “Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
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    Henry Kissinger
    “Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem”
    ― Henry Kissinger
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Salvador Dalí
    “What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”
    ― Salvador Dalí
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    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    ― Walter H. Cottingham
    tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: surrealism
    371 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
    ― Salvador Dalí
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    Salvador Dalí
    “The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
    ― salvador dali
    tags: influence
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    Salvador Dalí
    “You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life”
    ― Salvador Dalí
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