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    Yuval Noah Harari
    “Biology enables, Culture forbids.”
    ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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    Arthur Golden
    “I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about -- the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of the box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water. And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?”
    ― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
    tags: memoirs-of-a-geisha
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    James Altucher
    “no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won’t care. Stick with the people who love you and don’t spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.”
    ― James Altucher, Choose Yourself
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    William Shakespeare
    “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
    For now hath time made me his numbering clock:
    My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar
    Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,
    Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,
    Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.
    Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is
    Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,
    Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans
    Show minutes, times, and hours.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Richard II
    tags: time
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    William Shakespeare
    “Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Richard II
    tags: death, decay, destruction, ruin
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    Confucius
    “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”
    ― Confucius
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: divided, division, kingdom, mind, study
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    Ian Rankin
    “War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.”
    ― Ian Rankin, Blood Hunt
    tags: allies, division, peace, war
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    “Whereas division implies separation, diversity implies variety within a whole.”
    ― John J. Tierney Jr.
    tags: diversity, division
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    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “A box splits the world in two, differentiating what’s inside of the box from what’s outside of it. And from an organizational perspective that can be very helpful until the contents within and the stuff without forget that they’re part of the same world.”
    ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
    tags: alienation, bias, box, division, divisive, humanity, prejudice
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    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: absurd, absurdity, anti-absurdity, art, bi, bipolar, create, creativity, design, dual, duality, energy, fashion-designer, karl-lagerfeld, originality, style, unique, uniqueness
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    “Rebelling is just obeying in reverse.”
    ― Shunya
    tags: duality, life, philosophy, spirituality
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    Steven Moffat
    “Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: angel, demons, doctor, doctor-who, girl-in-the-fireplace, madame-du-pompadour, reinette, tolerance, who
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    Darynda Jones
    “I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt”
    ― Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left
    tags: demons, grave, self
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    Brom
    “Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
    ― Brom, The Child Thief
    tags: demons, fear, see
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: gandalf, prophecy, unanticipated
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight
    tags: prophecy
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Carry the fire.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Stephen King
    “God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: prophecy
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    Friedrich Schlegel
    “The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”
    ― Friedrich Von Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments
    tags: hindsight, historian, history, prophecy
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: prophecy
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    “In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.”
    ― Cameron Dokey, Sunlight and Shadow
    tags: humor, prophecy
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    David Gemmell
    “Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.”
    ― David Gemmell, Lion of Macedon
    tags: destiny, fait, gods, life, people, prophecy
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    John Muir
    “And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
    ― John Muir
    tags: forest, outdoors, wilderness-quotes
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    Mike Norton
    “Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
    ― Mike Norton, White Mountain
    tags: alone, bare, bloom, creative, creativity, cultivate, endure, faith, forest, genesis, genius, grow, hero, legend, loneliness, originality, plant, rain, solitude, weather
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    David Mitchell
    “Trees're always a relief, after people.”
    ― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
    tags: alienation, forest, humanity, nature, trees
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
    tags: dreams, forest, mind
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World Is Forest
    tags: alien, ecology, forest, word, world
    53 likes

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    Kevin Walker
    “When we lose these woods, we lose our soul. Not simply as individuals, but as a people.”
    ― Kevin Walker, These Moments Pass: Poems
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