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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him too seriously. After West Point and the Priesthood, LSD must have seemed entirely logical to him... but there is not much satisfaction in knowing that he blew it very badly for himself, because he took too many others down with him.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: acid, leary
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    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
    tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen
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    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
    ― Thich Nhat Hanh
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    Henepola Gunaratana
    “The irony of it is that real peace comes only when you stop chasing it—another Catch-22.”
    ― Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
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    Henepola Gunaratana
    “Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.”
    ― Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English
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    William Shakespeare
    “These violent delights have violent ends
    And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
    Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
    Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
    And in the taste confounds the appetite.
    Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
    Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
    tags: romeo-and-juliet, shakespeare
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    Susan Sontag
    “The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
    ― Susan Sontag, On Photography
    tags: photography
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    Susan Sontag
    “To collect photographs is to collect the world.”
    ― Susan Sontag, On Photography
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    tags: science, sincerity, truth
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “The non-physicist finds it hard to believe that really the ordinary laws of physics, which he regards as the prototype of inviolable precision, should be based on the statistical tendency of matter to go over into disorder.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?
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    Benjamin Hoff
    “Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.”
    ― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
    tags: inspirational, taoism, winnie-the-pooh
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    Benjamin Hoff
    “The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”
    ― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
    tags: time
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    Gautama Buddha
    “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
    ― Dhammapada, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
    tags: buddha, buddhism, wisdom
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    Gautama Buddha
    “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
    ― Buddha, The Dhammapada
    tags: buddhism, peace, words
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    Bhikkhu Bodhi
    “Beings are the owners of their actions, the heirs of their actions; they spring from their actions, are bound to their actions, and are supported by their actions. Whatever deeds they do, good or bad, of those they shall be heirs.”
    ― Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life
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    John Gribbin
    “Nothing is real unless it is observed”
    ― John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
    tags: meaning, richard-feynmann, thought-provoking-humourous
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
    tags: inspirational-life, richard-feynmann, self-value, thought-provoking, values-in-life
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    Erwin Schrödinger
    “If a man never contradicts himself, the reason must be that he virtually never says anything at all.”
    ― Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
    tags: contradiction
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    “Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed.”
    ― Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld
    tags: social-commentary
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    Robert Wright
    “Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.”
    ― Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
    tags: cybernetics, technology
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, "I am going to tell you something that you will never forget." And then he said, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
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    Hannah Arendt
    “For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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    Hannah Arendt
    “Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
    tags: evil, holocaust, morality
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: confidence
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: failure, humor, inspirational, success
    370 likes

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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!”
    ― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
    tags: education, humor, intelligence, mathematics, statistics
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.”
    ― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: imagination, man, nature
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