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    Bruce Lee
    “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    A.B. Potts
    “I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.”
    ― A.B. Potts
    tags: atheist, god, humour
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    “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
    ― Margaret Lee Runbeck
    tags: happiness, keep-it-light
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Joseph Stalin
    “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
    ― Joseph Stalin
    tags: death, humanity, life, media, statistics, tragedy
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    Dan Brown
    “Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else’s truth.”
    ― Dan Brown, Origin
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    Dan Brown
    “For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’ and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.”
    ― Dan Brown, Origin
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    Dan Brown
    “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. —WINSTON CHURCHILL”
    ― Dan Brown, Origin
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: humour, life-lesson, pippin, proverbs, shortcuts
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    “Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: physics
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    “The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    Leo Babauta
    “Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
    ― Leo Babauta
    tags: productivity
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    Thomas Carlyle
    “The tragedy of life is not so much what
    men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
    ― Thomas Carlyle
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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer
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    Bruce Lee
    “Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
    ― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
    tags: fear, motivational
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    Bruce Lee
    “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
    ― Bruce Lee
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    Bruce Lee
    “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: productivity
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    Bruce Lee
    “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: goals, vision
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: determined, inspirational, misattributed-bruce-lee, spiritual
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    Bruce Lee
    “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: inspirational, motivation, priorities, simplicity, wisdom
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