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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
    tags: yourself
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    “Programming, it turns out, is hard. The fundamental rules are typically simple and clear. But programs built on top of these rules tend to become complex enough to introduce their own rules and complexity. You’re building your own maze, in a way, and you might just get lost in it.”
    ― Marijn Haverbeke
    tags: programming
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    “Learning is hard work, but everything you learn is yours and will make subsequent learning easier.”
    ― Marijn Haverbeke , Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
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    “The programmer who refuses to keep exploring will surely stagnate, forget his joy, lose the will to program (and become a manager).”
    ― Marijn Haverbeke, Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
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    Linus Torvalds
    “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
    ― Linus Torvalds
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    Cameron Moll
    “What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional.”
    ― cameron moll
    tags: web-design
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    “Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: food, humor, survival, wit
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: marriage
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    René Descartes
    “And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”
    ― Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
    tags: logic, rationality, truth, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Every artist was first an amateur.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: artist, skill, skills, talent, talents
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    Stephen King
    “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: hardwork, talent
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    Austin Kleon
    “If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
    ― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
    tags: creativity, gigo, learn, talent
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    Austin Kleon
    “Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
    ― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
    tags: art, creative-work, creativity, writing
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    Austin Kleon
    “Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”
    ― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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    Austin Kleon
    “Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”
    ― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
    tags: art, creativity, inspiration, learning, life, success, work
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    Austin Kleon
    “Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want—that just kills creativity.”
    ― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: 1929, viereck-interview
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: friendship, love
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: authentic-living, authentic-self, authenticity, compassion
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