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    “Thanks to Blast data, researchers now know that natural walking speed is one of the most accurate predictors of mortality that we have. The slower you walk, statistically speaking, the sooner you are likely to check out.”
    ― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: imagination, life, money
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    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    ― Niels Bohr
    tags: science
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    Harrison Gray Otis
    “Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True.”
    ― Harrison Gray Otis
    tags: los-angeles-times, missions
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    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
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    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #9
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #10
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
    tags: principia, science
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: flight, flying, inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    Bill Watterson
    “I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”
    ― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
    tags: friends
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  • #14
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Sam Walton
    “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.”
    ― Sam Walton
    tags: business
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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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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: leadership
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  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems
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    Warren Buffett
    “It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: humor, investing
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  • #20
    “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
    ― William Durant
    tags: knowledge-habit-inspirational
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  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Cory Doctorow
    “Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
    ― Cory Doctorow
    tags: communication, internet, media
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  • #24
    Napoleon Hill
    “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
    ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
    tags: inspirational, motivational, success
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    Mark Twain
    “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: greatness
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  • #26
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
    tags: god, humor, life
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  • #28
    Tony Hsieh
    “Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness . . . happiness [is] when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.”
    ― Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
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  • #29
    George Washington
    “I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
    ― George Washington
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  • #30
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: inspiration, motivation
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  • #31
    Brian Greene
    “Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...”
    ― Brian Greene
    tags: communication, insight, intelligence, investigation, process, science, understanding
    153 likes



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