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    Linus Torvalds
    “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
    ― Linus Torvalds
    tags: humor, intelligence, work
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    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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    Billie Jean King
    “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
    ― Billie Jean King
    tags: perseverance, practice, sports
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    Hippolyte Taine
    “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
    ― Hippolyte Taine
    tags: animals, cats, intelligence, philosophers, smart, wisdom
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    People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
    “People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: boasting, brag, bragging, cleverest, cleverness, genius, intelligence, intelligence-quotes, iq
    275 likes

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    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
    ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
    tags: intelligence, mankind, stupidity
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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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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    “God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.”
    ― David Winner, Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football
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    Alexander Pope
    “Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
    God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
    ― Alexander Pope
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    Albert Einstein
    “God does not play dice with the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55
    tags: quantum-physics, science
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    Michael Chabon
    “Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.”
    ― Michael Chabon
    tags: dark-humor, futility
    173 likes

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    Warren Buffett
    “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”
    ― Warren Buffett
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    Warren Buffett
    “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
    ― Warren Buffett
    tags: planning
    407 likes

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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment ... falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Vanity of Existence
    tags: schopenhauer
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    Clare Boothe Luce
    “There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.”
    ― Clare Boothe Luce
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    “Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.”
    ― Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
    tags: aching-heart, billy-holiday, breakups, central-features, circumstances, comeback, desperation, dwelling, edna-st-vincent-millay, ex-lovers, feelings, hole-in-the-world, imagination, impressive-comeback, intense-desire, love, mental-environment, negative-experiences, nostalgia, phenomenon, reciprocity, romantic-life, scars, st-vincent-millay
    371 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: clever, desperation, hope, inspiration, misattributed, tenacity
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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha”
    ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    tags: classics, comedy, don-quixote, knighthood, world
    50 likes

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    Edsger W. Dijkstra
    “Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes”
    ― Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
    tags: analogy, computers
    51 likes



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