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  • #1
    “The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.”
    ― Stacy Keach
    tags: dreams, freedom, success
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  • #2
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: joy, living
    8 likes

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  • #3
    Lance Armstrong
    “Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.”
    ― Lance Armstrong
    tags: motivation, perseverance, training
    13 likes

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  • #4
    Ayn Rand
    “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    tags: philosophy
    71 likes

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  • #5
    “The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.”
    ― The London Times 1886
    tags: advertising, marketing
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  • #6
    Bertrand Russell
    “So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    212 likes

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  • #7
    Don DeLillo
    “I like simple men and complicated women.”
    ― Don DeLillo
    tags: men, women
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  • #8
    Peter F. Drucker
    “Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
    ― Peter Drucker
    tags: competence, strategy
    58 likes

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  • #9
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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  • #10
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
    ― Napoleon
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  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “What kind of dining set defines me as a person?”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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  • #12
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The soul is healed by being with children.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
    tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration, love, openness, society
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  • #13
    Voltaire
    “A witty saying proves nothing.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: proof, sayings, wit
    54 likes

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  • #14
    Tennessee Williams
    “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof
    tags: cages, prayer, wild-at-heart
    583 likes

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  • #15
    Alexander Pope
    “True wit is nature to advantage dressed;
    What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: chops, expressing, expression, nature, thought, wit, writing
    15 likes

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  • #16
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: character
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  • #17
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

    [Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: aspiration, challenge, kennedy, moon, space-race, space-travel, trial
    368 likes

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  • #18
    “A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”
    ― Ramsey Clark
    tags: rights
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  • #19
    Richard Bach
    “No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.”
    ― Richard Bach
    tags: character
    19 likes

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  • #20
    Allan Bloom
    “Equality has no place for genius.”
    ― Allen Bloom
    tags: equality, genius, liberalism
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  • #21
    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
    “War, the world’s only hygiene.”
    ― Filippo Marinetti
    tags: war
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  • #22
    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
    ― Edsger W. Dijkstra
    tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, computer-science, simile
    126 likes

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  • #23
    “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
    ― United States Marine Corps
    tags: pain, work-ethic
    55 likes

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  • #24
    Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.
    “I prefer to think of it as burning down their crops. [when asked why he - a fervent anti-Communist - smoked Cuban cigars]”
    ― Gen. Alexander Haig
    tags: cigars, conservative
    4 likes

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  • #25
    “I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
    Goddamit, I'm a billionaire.”
    ― Howard Hughes
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  • #26
    “Life is a fancy kind of rust inflicting the surface of certain lukewarm minor planets.”
    ― unk. scientist, How the Universe Works (2010)
    tags: life
    1 likes

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  • #27
    “Bars in the daytime are like women without makeup.”
    ― Lady Snowblood (1973)
    tags: bars
    3 likes

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  • #28
    If you knew how much I loved you, you'd faint.
    “If you knew how much I loved you, you'd faint.”
    ― Joel McCrea, Foreign Correspondent (1940)
    tags: love
    1 likes



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