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    Why The Lucky Stiff
    “when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
    ― Why The Lucky Stiff
    tags: inspirational, programming
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    Shirley Conran
    “Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”
    ― Shirley Conran
    tags: brevity, life, life-is-short, mushrooms
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: fact
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Donald Ervin Knuth
    “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
    ― Donald Ervin Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
    tags: optimization, software
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    Ray Dalio
    “Truth - more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality - is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes.”
    ― Ray Dalio
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    Ray Dalio
    “It is far more common for people to allow ego to stand in the way of learning.”
    ― Ray Dalio, Principles: Summary
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    Epictetus
    “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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    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: books, literacy, reading
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    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: astronomer, science, writer
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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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    Carl Sagan
    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
    ― Carl Sagan
    tags: evidence, faith, science, skepticism
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
    tags: life, science, wisdom
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “There is no knowledge that is not power.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    “We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”
    ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”
    ― Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    tags: nature, ocean
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    Jacques-Yves Cousteau
    “The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
    ― Jacques Cousteau
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    Nikola Tesla
    “I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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    Nikola Tesla
    “Of all things, I liked books best.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: books
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    Nikola Tesla
    “What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
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    Nikola Tesla
    “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.”
    ― Nikola Tesla, Problem of Increasing Human Energy
    tags: duty, foundation, future, ideas, results, science, scientist, work
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    Nikola Tesla
    “It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: intellect, tesla, women
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    Jules Verne
    “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
    ― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    tags: experience, failure, science
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    Lise Meitner
    “Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.”
    ― Lise Meitner
    tags: admiration, awe, joy, naturalism, objectivity, relaity, science, scientist, selfless, teach, truth, wonder
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    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: fear, life, science, understanding
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    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
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    Marie Curie
    “The older one gets, the more one feels that the present moment must be enjoyed, comparable to a state of grace.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: inspirational, live-in-the-moment
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    Marie Curie
    “I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”
    ― Marie Curie
    tags: action-handbook, daily-quote, daily-quotes, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-living, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, lifetime-version, motivate, motivation, motivational, motivational-inspirational, motivational-living, motivational-quote, motivational-quotes, quotes-to-live-by, self-help, self-improvement
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    Barbara McClintock
    “If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off. No matter what they say.”
    ― Barbara McClintock
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