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“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

tags: simplicity, truth

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“If you can't climb the highest mountain any more, go to the closest hill. It is better than staying at the bottom thinking you can't do it.”
― Nico J. Genes, LESSONS in LIFE: Achieving a better you through self-reflection

tags: determination, dont-give-up, dont-quit, inspirational, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quotes, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes

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“A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”
― Edmund Burke

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