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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: mathematics, poetry
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    John Wooden
    “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work
    628 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: hmmm
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    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational
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    John R.W. Stott
    “Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.”
    ― John Stott
    tags: god, grace, love, truth
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    James Joyce
    “Life is too short to read a bad book.”
    ― James Joyce
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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
    ― John Locke
    tags: actions, interpretation
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
    tags: wisdom
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    Carl R. Rogers
    “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
    ― Carl R. Rogers
    tags: knowledge
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Isaac Newton
    “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
    ― Isaac Newton
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: agnosticism, aquinas, atheism, faith
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    Isaac Newton
    “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
    ― Isaac Newton
    tags: science, truth
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    Olaf Stapledon
    “Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.”
    ― Olaf Stapledon, The Seed and the Flower
    tags: peace, war
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    George MacDonald
    “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
    ― George MacDonald
    tags: trust
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: life, reality
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
    1974 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
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    Dallas Willard
    “We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.”
    ― Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
    tags: belief
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    Charles Dickens
    “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: communication, psychology
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: happiness
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    Aristotle
    “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
    ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
    tags: friends, friendship
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: knowing, urgency, willing
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    Francis A. Schaeffer
    “As a Christian I do not have to find my validity in my status, or by thinking myself above other men. My validity and my status are found in being before the God who is there.”
    ― Francis A. Schaeffer, True Spirituality
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