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    Terry Pratchett
    “Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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  • #7
    Henny Youngman
    “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
    ― Henny Youngman
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Albert Einstein
    “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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    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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    W. Edwards Deming
    “In God we trust; all others bring data.”
    ― W. Edwards Deming
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    W. Edwards Deming
    “If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”
    ― W. Edwards Deming
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  • #18
    Frank Sinatra
    “I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-”
    ― Frank Sinatra
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    Brian Tracy
    “Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.”
    ― Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
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    John Wooden
    “If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: attitude, excellence, inspirational
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    “Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, 
and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.”
    ― Dieter Rams, Less but Better / Weniger, aber besser
    tags: design, simplicity
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  • #22
    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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  • #23
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: identity
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  • #25
    “My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
    ― Walter Johnson, Steve Jobs: In His Own Words - 100 Quotes from Steve Jobs
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    Muhammad Ali
    “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.”
    ― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
    tags: inspirational
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  • #27
    Charles du Bos
    “The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
    ― Charles Du Bos
    tags: becoming
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  • #28
    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
    ― William Durant
    tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: excellence, inspirational
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  • #30
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: excellence, success
    664 likes



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