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#1

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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#2

“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: certainty, faith, intuition

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#3

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#4

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#5

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#6

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: dull, intuition, mathematical

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#7

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: love

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#8

“The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#9

“Wherever you have friends that’s your country, and wherever you receive love, that’s your home.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

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#10

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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#11

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: adage, always, aphorism, ask, calm, circumstance, everything, flow, forgive, give-in, happen, harmony, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kind, kindness, kojouri, let-go, maxim, mind, mindful, mindfulness, moment, nothing, peace, present, quote, rights, say, serene, serenity, silence, silent, simple-quotes, speak, surrender, talk, think, think-before-you-act, thought, tranquility, truth, unity, zen

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#12

“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, arrogance, arrogant, axiom, axioms, boyfriend, boyfriends, convince, convinced, convincing, date, dating, deep, deserve, deserving, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humble, humbled, humility, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, partner, partners, persuade, persuaded, persuading, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, true, wife, wives

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#13

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adversity, affliction, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, austerity, be-determined, be-persistent, be-tenacious, carry-on, challenge, challenges, continue, deprivation, destitution, determination, difficult, difficulties, dire-straits, distress, doggedness, dream, dreamer, dreamers, endurance, entrepreneur, entrepreneurs, firmness, follow-through, funny, give-up, go-on, go-the-distance, hammer-away, hang-in-there, hang-on, hardship, hardships, hilarious, hold-on, humor, humorous, humour, impecuniousness, indefatigability, inspiration, inspire, intransigence, joke, jokes, keep-at-it, keep-going, keep-on, leave-no-stone-unturned, mental-strength, mentally-strong, misery, misfortune, motivate, motivation, need, neediness, never-give-up, not-take-no-for-an-answer, obduracy, obstinacy, pain, patience, penury, perseverance, persevere, persist, persistence, pertinacity, plod-on, plug-away, poverty, press-ahead, press-on, privation, problem, problems, purposefulness, quotations, quotes, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, satire, soldier-on, stamina, stand-fast, stand-firm, startup, startups, staunchness, stay-the-course, staying-power, steadfastness, stick-it-out, stoic, stoicism, stoics, stop-at-nothing, strength, strength-of-purpose, strong, struggle-on, stubbornness, suffer, suffering, tenacity, tirelessness, travails, trial, trials, trials-and-tribulations, tribulation, tribulations, trouble, venture-capitalist, venture-capitalists, want, wretchedness

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#14

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bachelor, bachelors, birth, born, boyfriend, boyfriends, breakup, breakups, childfree, childless, deep, dictum, dictums, divorce, divorces, epigram, epigrams, ex, exes, father, fatherhood, fathers, funny, girlfriend, girlfriends, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, husband, husbands, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, marriage, married, maxim, maxims, mom, moms, mother, mothers, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, relationship, relationships, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, selfish, selfishness, single, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, trouble, troubled, wife, wives, world

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#15

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adolescence, adolescent, adult, adulthood, aphorism, aphorisms, babyish, boy, boyhood, boyhoods, boys, childish, childishness, develop, development, foolish, girl, girlhood, girlhoods, girls, humor, humour, immature, immaturity, inane, infantile, irresponsibility, irresponsible, jejune, juvenile, man, mature, maturity, men, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, responsibilities, responsibility, responsible, satire, silly, woman, women

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#16

“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, advice, advices, advisor, advisors, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, bank, bank-statement, bank-statements, banks, bombast, bombastic, clothes, clothes-make-the-man, clothes-maketh-the-man, clothing, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, financial-advice, financial-advices, financial-advisor, financial-advisors, financial-freedom, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, impress, impressed, impression, income, insightful, invest, investment, investments, jargon, job, job-title, job-titles, jobs, language, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, money, passive, passive-income, philosopher, policies, policy, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rich, riches, salaries, salary, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, share, shareholder, shareholders, shareholding, shares, south-africa, south-african, suit, suits, tailor, tailor-made, tailored-suit, tailored-suits, tailors, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tuxedo, wage, wages, wealth, wealthy

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#17

“To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.”
― Saki, Reginald

tags: aphorism, edwardian, humor

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#18

“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, consequential, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humorous, humour, importance, important, inconsequential, insightful, insignificant, made-me-think, make-you-think, materialism, materialistic, maxim, maxims, money, philosopher, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, significant, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unimportance, unimportant

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#19

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: dreams, life, time

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#20

“Onora O’Neill argues that if we want to demonstrate trustworthiness, we need the basis of our decisions to be “intelligently open.” She proposes a checklist of four properties that intelligently open decisions should have. Information should be accessible: that implies it’s not hiding deep in some secret data vault. Decisions should be understandable—capable of being explained clearly and in plain language. Information should be usable—which may mean something as simple as making data available in a standard digital format. And decisions should be assessable—meaning that anyone with the time and expertise has the detail required to rigorously test any claims or decisions if they wish to.”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

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#21

“I’ve argued that we need to be skeptical of both hype and hysteria. We should ask tough questions on a case-by-case basis whenever we have reason for concern. Are the underlying data accessible? Has the performance of the algorithm been assessed rigorously—for example, by running a randomized trial to see if people make better decisions with or without algorithmic advice? Have independent experts been given a chance to evaluate the algorithm? What have they concluded? We should not simply trust that algorithms are doing a better job than humans, nor should we assume that if the algorithms are flawed, the humans would be flawless.”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

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#22

“There is more,” Gustavo told me. “Panchito is dead. Guido, too. And many others.” I shook my head feebly in disbelief. How could this be happening? Sobs gathered in my throat, but before I could surrender to my grief and shock, the voice spoke again, and louder. They are all gone. They are all a part of your past. Don’t waste energy on things you can’t control. Look forward. Think clearly. You will survive.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

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#23

“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

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#24

“Parents who name their children after themselves are stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

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