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    Bertrand Russell
    “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Will Rogers
    “Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
    ― Will Rogers
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    Bertrand Russell
    “I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. ”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Albert Einstein
    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, skepticism
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    “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
    ― Benjamin Brewster
    tags: 1882, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, misattributed-to-yogi-berra, quote-investigator, theory
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    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: wisdom
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    “When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.”
    ― Gary Lloyd
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    Richard Avedon
    “A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”
    ― Richard Avedon
    tags: accuracy, art, inaacuracy, perspective, photography, portraits, portraiture, truth
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    Bertrand Russell
    “If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: bertrand-russel
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    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: spirituality
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: love-remedy
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    “Imagine the people you fear and dislike as pivotal characters in a fascinating and ultimately redemptive plot that will take years or even lifetimes for the Divine to elaborate.”
    ― Rob Brezsny
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    C.G. Jung
    “Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: connection, psychology
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    Henry Miller
    “Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
    ― Henry Miller
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.

    If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    tags: antoine-de-saint-exupéry, motivation, teaching
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    John Burroughs
    “Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.”
    ― John Burroughs
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    John Keats
    “There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: instability, music, stability
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    George Santayana
    “Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
    ― George Santayana
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Never confuse Motion with Action.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
    tags: action
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    Anton Chekhov
    “We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”
    ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
    tags: peace
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    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: hope, human-nature
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    Theodore Roethke
    “I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more. ”
    ― Theodore Roethke
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: haste, philosophy, rest
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    Peter De Vries
    “Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”
    ― Peter De Vries
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    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”
    ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
    tags: conversation
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    William Drummond of Hawthornden
    “He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.”
    ― William Drummond
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    Bertrand Russell
    “It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
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    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars
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    Hermann Hesse
    “I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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