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    Albert Einstein
    “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Stephen Hunt
    “Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
    ― Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air
    tags: time, wrong
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    Dale Carnegie
    “A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: complaint, condemnation, criticism, fools, misattributed-ben-franklin
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: dishonesty, general-obregon-s-philosophy, inspirational, life, people
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    Dale Carnegie
    “A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one’s neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
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    Dale Carnegie
    “The legendary French aviation pioneer and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote: “I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
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    Dale Carnegie
    “PRINCIPLE 1 The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. PRINCIPLE 2 Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.” PRINCIPLE 3 If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. PRINCIPLE 4 Begin in a friendly way. PRINCIPLE 5 Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately. PRINCIPLE 6 Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. PRINCIPLE 7 Let the other person feel that the idea”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People
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    Dale Carnegie
    “PRINCIPLE 8 Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view. PRINCIPLE 9 Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires. PRINCIPLE 10 Appeal to the nobler motives. PRINCIPLE 11 Dramatize your ideas. PRINCIPLE 12 Throw down a challenge.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
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    Rolf Dobelli
    “It’s OK to be envious – but only of the person you aspire to become.”
    ― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly: The Secrets of Perfect Decision-Making
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    Rolf Dobelli
    “Should you ever be sent to war, and you don’t agree with its goals, desert.”
    ― Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly: The International Bestseller That Improves Decision Making and Counters Faulty Reasoning with Research-Backed Good Sense
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    Aristotle
    “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
    ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
    tags: doing, inspirational, learning, learning-by-doing, life, practice
    557 likes

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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
    15560 likes

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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Five percent of the people think;
    ten percent of the people think they think;
    and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: thinking, willful-ignorance
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, tenacity
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor
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    Albert Einstein
    “We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Albert Einstein
    “What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: bigotry, fission, fusion
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    Albert Einstein
    “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: growing-older, solitude
    1088 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational
    732 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #28
    “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
    ― Anonymous
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

    [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: argument, debate, discussion, persuasion, shouting
    557 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
    1655 likes



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