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    George Lucas
    “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
    ― George Lucas
    tags: inspiration, star-wars
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Ayn Rand
    “Victor Hugo: “If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “If you want my advice, Peter, you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
    tags: best, howard-roark, standards, the-fountainhead
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    Ayn Rand
    “Everything bad comes from the mind, because the mind asks too many questions. It is blessed to believe, not to understand.”
    ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: possibility, profundity, thought
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: excess, nietzsche
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    Sophie Jordan
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
    ― Sophie Jordan, Uninvited
    tags: jordan, nietzsche, quote, sophie
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Great intellects are skeptical.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: nietzsche, skepticism
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    John Fante
    “Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”
    ― John Fante, Ask the Dust
    tags: atheism, god, nietzsche
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    Cory Doctorow
    “If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
    ― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
    tags: abyss, cynical, negative, nietzsche, people
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Your educators can only be your liberators.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
    tags: nietzsche, philosophy, schopenhauer-as-educator
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: connection, delusion, friendship, people, philosophy, psychology, rationality, relations, relationships
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Faith is stronger than so-called reason.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, The Journey to the East
    tags: faith, h-h, rationality, reason
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Criss Jami
    “When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: advantage, alienation, alienation-versus-humanity, art, artist, authenticity, awkward, brain, compromise, craft, creative, fierce, genuine, humanity, humanity-versus-alienation, imagination, introversion, isolation, life, loner, originality, perspective, purity, social, socially-awkward, solitude, writing
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: literature, words, writing
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    “when you have the reasons, reason!”
    ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
    tags: daring-greatly, emotional-intelligence, emotions-and-attitude, feelings-of-love, feelings-quotes, hatred, hatred-quotes, humor, love, patience, resoning, thought, thought-provoking, thoughts-on-life, timing, timing-is-everything, timing-quotes
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Art is the proper task of life. ”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, inspirational, life
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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    Voltaire
    “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, religion
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    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Martha C. Nussbaum
    “You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.”
    ― Martha Nussbaum
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    ― Plato
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