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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
    is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
    person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    tags: love, romance, romantic, sentimentality
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
    tags: love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: fitzgerald
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. ”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: benediction, blessing, life, love
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men on nights such as these.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Bowl
    tags: achievement, confusion, emphasis, life
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    B.F. Skinner
    “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
    ― B. F. Skinner
    tags: achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, adversity, easy, effort, envy, lives
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    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: conservation, environment, morals, nationalism, patriotism, politics, values
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: initiative, opportunity, preparedness
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    Harry Truman
    “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, inspirational, misattributed, modesty, recognition
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    Scott Adams
    “Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.”
    ― Scott Adams
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
    ― Teddy Roosevelt
    tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    “This one went unusually smoothly. When I finished it, I remarked to a friend that I felt like an engineer who had designed a machine and then sat back and realized it did everything I'd set out to do.

    Which made him say, quite emphatically, "No engineer has ever felt this.”
    ― Robert J. Bennett
    tags: engineering, interviews, writing
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
    tags: drinking, inspirational
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    Simon R. Green
    “First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers”
    ― Simon R. Green, Spirits from Beyond
    tags: engineering
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
    ― Robert Heinlein
    tags: wisdom
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    Cathy Hopkins
    “Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”
    ― Cathy Hopkins
    tags: determination, initiative, inspirational
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    George Whitefield
    “Lord, help me to begin to begin.”
    ― George Whitefield
    tags: humility, initiative
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    Virginia Henley
    “So this was love then—wanting to give only pleasure to the beloved; constantly searching your mind for love tokens that would bring a smile to her lips or a sparkle to her eyes. He deeply regretted it had come so late in life, but since his heart’s desire was Eleanor who was so much younger than he, it could have been no other way. He was grateful it had come at all.”
    ― Virginia Henley, The Dragon and the Jewel
    tags: love, may-december-relationships
    10 likes



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