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    Lao Tzu
    “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Лодойдамба Чадраабалын
    “Хорвоо! Чи хүний зовлонд цадах болоогүй юу?”
    ― Лодойдамба Чадраабалын, Тунгалаг тамир
    tags: амьдрал, зовлон, үнэн
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    Gautama Buddha
    “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”
    ― Gautama Buddha
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
    tags: memories
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
    tags: isolation, loneliness, sadness
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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Г. Аюурзана
    “Амьдрал гэж нэг иймэрхүү авсаархан ном байлаа гэхэд, санаандгүй сөхөхөд тааралдах тохиолдлын ганц өгүүлбэрт л уг номыг унших учир шалтгаан бүрэн шингээстэй бий.”
    ― Аюурзана Гун-Аажав, Амь тавьж буй шувууны далавч
    tags: books
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
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    Ivan Turgenev
    “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: paraphrased, strength
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    “Basically, we see something as more desirable when it is less available.”
    ― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: patience, time
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    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: business, strategy, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
    ― Sun tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, strategy, tactics, war, warfare
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    Sun Tzu
    “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
    ― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra
    tags: business, strategy
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “All I have learned, I learned from books.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: books, education, lifelong-learning, lincoln, reading, self-education
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    ― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: attraction, rumi, sufi
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
    tags: inspiration
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
    tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
    ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    tags: hunger
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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