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#1

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
― Epictetus

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“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

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#3

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master;
he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.”
― Epictetus

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#4

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
― Epictetus

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#5

“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
― Epictetus

tags: self-deprecating, self-deprecating-humor, self-deprecation

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#6

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

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#7

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
― Epictetus

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#8

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”
― Epictetus

tags: inspirational

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#9

“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
― Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

tags: chance, death, destiny, life

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#10

“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#11

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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#12

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

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#13

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: humour, science, wisdom

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#14

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

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#15

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

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#16

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

tags: genius, humour, oscar-wilde

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#17

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#18

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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#19

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness

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#20

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent

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#21

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence

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#22

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
― Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

tags: genius, humor, laughter, philosophy

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#23

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

tags: dunces, genius, stupidity

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#24

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: genius, honor

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#25

“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
― Mike Norton, White Mountain

tags: alone, bare, bloom, creative, creativity, cultivate, endure, faith, forest, genesis, genius, grow, hero, legend, loneliness, originality, plant, rain, solitude, weather

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#26

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: philosophy, war

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#27

“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: defeat, hitler, victory

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#28

“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: power

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