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    Aristotle
    “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: work
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: change, mind, nietzsche
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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
    32149 likes

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  • #4
    Anaïs Nin
    “I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.”
    ― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934
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  • #5
    Voltaire
    “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism
    tags: mortality
    1611 likes

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  • #6
    W.C. Fields
    “I always keep some whiskey handy in case I see a snake...which I also keep handy.”
    ― W. C. Fields
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  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “the tigers have found me
    and I do not care.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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  • #8
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
    Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
    Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
    Man got to tell himself he understand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
    tags: life, nature, philosophy
    2748 likes

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  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
    tags: news
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  • #10
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    13878 likes

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  • #11
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
    ― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca
    tags: cats, news, newspapers
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: perspective
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  • #13
    William S. Burroughs
    “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
    tags: introspection, loquacity, remaining-silent, reticence, silence
    1027 likes

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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adolescence, attributed, attributed-no-source, prejudice
    677 likes

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  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales
    25166 likes

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  • #16
    Paulo Coelho
    “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
    ― Paulo Coelho
    tags: courage
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  • #17
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Interviews by Roberto Alifano 1981-1983
    tags: art, purpose, raw-materia, writing
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: discipleship, friendship, internet, news, social-networking
    141 likes

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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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  • #20
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
    5317 likes

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  • #21
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: rain
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  • #22
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
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  • #23
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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  • #24
    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    ― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
    tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness
    1149 likes

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  • #25
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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  • #26
    Bob Marley
    “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
    ― Bob Marley
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  • #27
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
    tags: animal-rights, animals, barbarism, compassion, cruelty, morality
    1179 likes

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  • #28
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: reminding
    6011 likes

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  • #29
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I tiger can smile
    A snake will say it loves you
    Lies make us evil”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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  • #30
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: inspirational
    4175 likes



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