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    Randy Pausch
    “The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner
    tags: gambling, love
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    David Baldacci
    “Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”
    ― David Baldacci, The Simple Truth
    tags: intimacy, knowledge, understanding
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    David Baldacci
    “Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
    ― David Baldacci, The Camel Club
    tags: books, peace, people, reading, world
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    Randy Pausch
    “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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    Mitch Albom
    “The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
    tags: life-death
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    Tess Gerritsen
    “The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”
    ― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner
    tags: dead, death, hurt, life, living, tess-gerritsen, the-sinner
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    Mitch Albom
    “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie
    tags: inspirational
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    Randy Pausch
    “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: advice, last-lecture, life, randy-pausch
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    Mitch Albom
    “Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: confidence
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  • #11
    “It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: bossypants, tina-fey
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  • #12
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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  • #13
    “I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: blorft, grammar-humor, humor, stress
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    “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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  • #15
    “Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    “You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
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    Kathleen Tessaro
    “Smells are custodians of memories.”
    ― Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector
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    Kathleen Tessaro
    “Some of us, no matter how hard we try, aren’t meant to lead ordinary lives. Fate finds us. Gives us a shove.”
    ― Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector
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    Kathleen Tessaro
    “In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden their resolve.”
    ― Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector
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    Kathleen Tessaro
    “...I have to have some answers."

    "And what if there are no answers?"

    She held her ground. "Then at least I will have asked the questions.”
    ― Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector
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    Kathleen Tessaro
    “There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.”
    ― Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector
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    Bill Gates
    “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
    ― Bill Gates
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    Bill Gates
    “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
    ― Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
    tags: biology, dna, id, information, intelligent-design, science
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    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: friendship
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    Bob Marley
    “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: music
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    Bob Marley
    “Who are you to judge the life I live?
    I know I'm not perfect
    -and I don't live to be-
    but before you start pointing fingers...
    make sure you hands are clean!”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: judge, life, live, perfection
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    Bob Marley
    “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: inspirational-life
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
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    Hope Jahren
    “Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume, and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life. It has also convinced me that carefully writing everything down is the only real defense we have against forgetting something important that once was and is no more, including the spruce tree that should have outlived me but did not.”
    ― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
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    Hope Jahren
    “He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able to fix it.”
    ― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
    tags: fathers, fathers-and-daughters, fix, scientists
    48 likes



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