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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
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“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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