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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
    tags: elegance, misattributed-to-apple, misattributed-to-da-vinci, misattributed-to-steve-jobs, simplicity, sophistication
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    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand
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    Sigmund Freud
    “Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: act, control, instinct, love, negatively, obtain, of, threatened
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    Terry Eagleton
    “All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.”
    ― Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: culture, history, knowledge, language, linguistics, mythology
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    Terry Crowley
    “It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.”
    ― Terry Crowley, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
    tags: change, language, linguistics
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Almost anything around us of significance is hard to grasp linguistically.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
    tags: linguistics, significance
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “In this sort of predicament, always ask yourself: How did we learn the meaning of this word ("good", for instance)? From what sort of examples? In what language-games? Then it will be easier for you to see that the word must have a family of meanings.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
    tags: language, linguistics, philosophy, semiotics
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    Nicholas Sparks
    “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
    tags: at-first-sight, emotions, healing, heartbreak, love, nicholas, nicholas-sparks, sparks
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    Cassandra Clare
    “They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
    tags: grief, healing, magnus-bane, time, will-herondale
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    “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
    ― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly
    tags: kill-me-softly, love, real-love, sarah-cross, unrequited-love
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    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
    ― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
    tags: impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love
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    Elle Newmark
    “...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
    ― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief
    tags: love, pain, unrequited-love
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: beliefs, books, boyfriend, choices, faith, family, friendships, girlfriend, hang-ups, in-love, life, love, marriage, memories, moving-on, nostalgia, obsessions, peace, relationships, religion, sister-in-laws, sisters, spouse, unrequited-love, wife, writing
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    Sarah Dessen
    “I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
    tags: unrequited-love
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