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    Marcus Aurelius
    “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: doing-right, goodness, integrity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Art is the proper task of life. ”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, inspirational, life
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    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    Pablo Picasso
    “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    Plato
    “I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? ”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Plato
    “Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: law, music, state
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    Plato
    “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”
    ― Plato
    tags: learning, music
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: education, schooling, university
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
    ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, procrastination
    1670 likes

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  • #17
    Pablo Picasso
    “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: inspirational
    641 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    ― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
    tags: dare, inspirational, life, science, time, value, waste
    2891 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: death, fear, inspirational
    2019 likes

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    Galileo Galilei
    “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
    ― Galileo
    tags: teaching, wisdom
    685 likes

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    Galileo Galilei
    “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
    ― Galileo
    tags: truth-discovery
    269 likes

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  • #24
    Salvador Dalí
    “I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: drugs
    1051 likes

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    Salvador Dalí
    “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: surrealism
    371 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
    tags: life-and-death
    1258 likes

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    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    ― Margaret Fuller
    tags: read, reader, reading
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  • #28
    C.G. Jung
    “The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
    ― Carl Jung
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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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