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# Favorite Quotes data
## Intention: To display a random ticker of some of my favorite quotes.
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quote: A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
author: Jack London
source: IFS Nov 11, 2014 email
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quote: Conflux of Eternity
author: Thomas Carlyle
source: Wikipedia
more: Carlyle's expressive phrase for time, as in every moment of it a centre in which all the forces to and from eternity meet and unite, so that by no past and no future can we be brought nearer to Eternity than where we at any moment of Time are; the Present Time, the youngest born of Eternity, being the child and heir of all the Past times with their good and evil, and the parent of all the Future. By the import of which (see Matt. xvi. 27), it is accordingly the first and most sacred duty of every successive age, and especially the leaders of it, to know and lay to heart as the only link by which Eternity lays hold of it, and it of Eternity.
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quote: Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'
author: Evel Knievel
source: IFS 11/10/14 email
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quote: So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
author: Nelson Mandela
source: Momentum, Nov 10 2014
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quote: Horses for courses
source: the Medium essay [Rust and Go](https://medium.com/@adamhjk/rust-and-go-e18d511fbd95), by [Adam Jacob](https://twitter.com/adamhjk).
more: So.. Rust or Go? The pragmatic answer is ‘horses for courses’, I guess.
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quote: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.
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quote: It’s not just the choices you make. It’s the choices you don’t realize that you are making.
author: Rhamni
source: Article compiling 25 inspiration quotes from Reddit http://thoughtcatalog.com/nico-lang/2013/08/25-unintentionally-profound-statements-that-will-change-your-life-today/
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quote: We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
author: Joseph Campbell
source: IFS 7/16/14 email http://www.inspiration-for-success.com/daily-inspirational-quotes-2014/
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quote: Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
author: Bruce Lee
source: Momentum Nov 8, 2014 http://dsernst.com/2014/08/21/New-Tab-Page/
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quote: All spirituality is about relieving suffering.
author: Siddhartha Gautama
source: related by Jim Carrey in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P779XJEq6vg&t=700
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quote: "Pain is temporary, regret lasts forever."
source: From my 8th grade Lit class presentation where we picked a quotation to share.
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quote: The fastest way to learn if you can trust something is to trust it.
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quote: Success isn't about being the best. It's about always getting better.
author: Behance 99U
source: Momentum 11/23/2014
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quote: Truth is what works.
author: William James
source: used by Charlie Cross during the October 2014 roadtrip to San Francisco
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quote: Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
source: Momentum 11/11/14
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quote: "'What is Right?', not 'Who is Right?'"
author: Genius.com ISMs philsophy
author_url: http://meta.genius.com/4126920
more: |
Likewise, when Ilan or Tom (or anyone) stakes out a strong position, and even says 'I think we should do x', what they are REALLY saying is something more like 'Here's an idea for solving such-and-such problem. I think we should either do it, or, if you have a better idea, let's talk about why it's better and do it instead of my idea.'
Don't worry about 'rocking the boat' as you push for what you think is right – capsize the boat if that's what you need to do to surface a problem.
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quote: The kingdom of heaven is within you.
author: Jesus of Nazareth
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quote: Fortune favors the bold
source: Latin class? Wikipedia? Trevor Worcester? No longer remember.
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quote: "... yearn for the endless immensity of the sea"
author: Antoine de Saint Euxpery
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quote: "All problems boil down to two types: not knowing what you want, & not knowing how to get it."
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quote: The universe believes in you.
author: Alexander Perry
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quote: Every moment is a moment of learning.
author: Charlotte Selver
source: Alexander Perry
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quote: There's two types of people, those that think they're normal, and those who know there's no such thing.
author: Will McAvoy
source: watching The Newsroom
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quote: Talk is cheap.
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quote: What's the worst that could happen?
author: Tim Ferris
explanation: When on the fence about doing something daring or risk or unconventional, try asking "What's the worst that could happen?" as motivation.
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quote: May the worst day of your future be better than the best day of your past.
source: "Old Irish folk saying"
explanation: sounds counter-intuitive, but makes sense when you think about it.
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quote: If they can do it, so can you.
source: Momentum January 3, 2015
explanation: Totally agree with this sentiment. This is how I try to approach a lot of goals in life. Unless it's something with a strict physical barrier -- e.g. being an NFL lineback -- if someone else could do it, why couldnt I? And the same applies to all of us.
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quote: We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
author: Mother Teresa
source: IFS, January 6 2015 email
explanation: '"So just know you are valuable." -- Guus'
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quote: Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.
author: Thich Nhat Hanh
source: IFS, January 13 2015 email
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quote: He that can have patience can have what he will.
author: Benjamin Franklin
source: IFS, January 15 2015 email
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quote: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
author: Lao-Tzu
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quote: Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
author: Lao-Tzu
source: IFS February 4, 2015 email
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quote: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
author: Frederick Douglass
date: August 4, 1857
source: Eric S. Raymond email signature (via "Defending GCC considered futile")
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quote: Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
author: Pope John Paul II
source: Neil Postman's Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
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quote: Life is a team sport.
author: Hack Reactor
source: '"Remind the student not to compare themselves against other students. Remind them the program is already highly selective. Instead, measure yourself honestly against the curriculum. What are your weak points? How can you shore them up? Ask for help! From other students, and from instructors. Life is a team sport; so is the program." -- Hack Reactor Instructor docs'
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quote: "For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever."
author: Lev Grossman
source: IFS March 11, 2015 'Reality Inspiration' email
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quote: Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
author: Hal Borland
source: IFS March 15, 2015 'P Inspiration' email
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quote: When you see such beauty, what takes place? At that moment, the very majesty of a mountain makes you forget yourself. Right? Have you ever been in that position? When you have seen that you don't exist, only that grandeur exists.
author: J. Krishnamurti
date: January 31, 1982
source: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-daily-quote/20140519.php
more: "Look at something which you have seen which is actually marvellously beautiful: a statue, a poem, a lily in the pond, or a well-kept lawn. And when you see such a piece of beauty - no, no, when you see such, not piece - when you see such beauty what takes place? At that moment, the very majesty of a mountain makes you forget yourself. Right? Have you ever been in that position? When you have seen that you don't exist, only that grandeur exists. But a few seconds later or a minute later the whole cycle begins, the confusion, the chatter. So beauty is where you are not. Have you understood this? Do you understand, sir? Oh, what a crowd! The tragedy of it. Truth is where you are not. Beauty, love is where you are not. Because we are not capable to look at this extraordinary thing called truth."
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quote: For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
author: H. L. Mencken
source: via Ribbon Farm post on legibility, 1st comment http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/#comment-5175
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quote: There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
author: C.S. Lewis
source: Luis Guzman's Hack Reactor bio
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quote: Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things that you did do.
author: Mark Twain
source: Stephanie Uniacke's Hack Reactor bio
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quote: There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
date: 5th century BC
author: Socrates
source: Civilization v
explanation: It is a problem that Socrates has been lost in modern culture. Physicists as an ethical authority... General misunderstanding of what we should be doing.
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quote: You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
source: IFS March 19, 2015 'Surf Inspiration' email
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quote: This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.
author: Holstee Manifesto
source: Momentum New Tab Page, March 25, 2015
more: |
This is your life, do what you love, and do it often.
If you don’t like something, change it.
If you don’t like your job, quit.
If you don’t have enough time, stop watching tv.
If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.
Stop over analyzing, life is simple.
All emotions are beautiful, when you eat, appreciate every last bite.
Open your mind, arms, and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences.
Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them.
Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.
Some opportunities only come once, seize them.
life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating.
Life is short. Live your dream and share your passion.
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quote: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
author: Robert Frost
source: Writer's Almanac March 26, 2015
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quote: If you're depressed, you're living in the past. If you're anxious, you're living in the future. If you're at peace, you're living in the present.
author: Lao Zhu
source: some inspirational picture on Facebook
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It took thousands of years of human civilisation before we got relatively benign governments. Power structures are not inherently benign; they must constantly be pressured to prevent malignant people using them to leverage their actions.
A non-authoritarian government is an historical anomaly. It's a ball balanced on top of a hill, pushed there by the deaths of millions, and kept there by the vigilance of those who care.
Please start caring.
author: barrkel
author_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=barrkel
source: Hacker News post on 1984 MiniTruth reference in NSA backdoor of Lotus Notes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846189
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quote: Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work.
author: Seth Godin
source: Seth's blog post 'Hope and Expectation' from April 13, 2015 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/04/hope-and-expectation.html
more: |
Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work.
Expectation is the killer of joy, the shortest route to disappointment. When we *expect* that something will happen, we can't help but be let down...
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quote: Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
author: Sramana Mitra
source: http://www.sramanamitra.com/2015/03/11/the-second-key-lesson-from-ellen-pao-vs-kleiner-perkins/
more: 'Here’s a wonderful saying that a friend of mine shared recently: “Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”'
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quote: The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness.
author: Thich Nhat Hanh
source: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/31/how-to-love-thich-nhat-hanh/
more: "If our parents didn’t love and understand each other, how are we to know what love looks like? ... The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness. Our parents may be able to leave us money, houses, and land, but they may not be happy people. If we have happy parents, we have received the richest inheritance of all."
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quote: Be patient. Your future will soon come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.
author: Kurt Vonnegut
source: From the introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition of Slaughterhouse Five
more: Well worth reading the opening page in full... A reflection on events described in the book and aging.
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quote: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
author: Eleanor Roosevelt
source: IFS 'Unknown Inspiration' email Sun May 10 2015
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quote: Do one thing every day that scares you.
author: Eleanor Roosevelt
source: Momentum New Tab Page 5/11/2015
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quote: Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.
author: Werner Herzog
source: via Why Can't We Read Anymore https://medium.com/@hughmcguire/why-can-t-we-read-anymore-503c38c131fe
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quote: It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
author: Albert Einstein
source: IFS 'Solution Inspiration' email Wed May 13 2015
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quote: "I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
author: Horace Mann
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quote: You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
author: Jim Rohn
source: IFS 'Responsibility Inspiration' email May 18 2015
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quote: As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
author: Nelson Mandela
source: IFS 'Freedom Inspiration' May 28 2015
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quote: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
author: William James
source: IFS 'Belief Inspiration' June 2 2015
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quote: If you care enough about your work, to be willing to be criticized for it, then you have done a good day’s work.
author: Seth Godin
source: Stop Stealing Dreams @ 16:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpbONjV1Jc&t=16m
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quote: Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
author: Theodore Roosevelt
source: Parks and Recreation, series finale
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quote: Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary‘?
author: Marcus Aurelius
source: IFS 'Tranquility Inspiration' June 16 2015
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quote: The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.
author: Shoghi Effendi
source: Sasha Bayan at Patxi's and http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/370135-the-more-we-search-for-ourselves-the-less-likely-we
more: From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, February 18, 1954
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quote: Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
author: Helen Schucman
source: IFS 'Love Inspiration' June 24 2015 (my birthday!)
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quote: Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
author: Muhammed Ali
source: Momentum Sun Aug 16, 2015
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quote: Happiness only real when shared.
author: Christopher McCandless
source: 'When I saw the movie Into The Wild, I was transfixed by the final note written into the margins of Dr. Zhivago by a doomed Christopher McCandless: "Happiness only real when shared." via http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-the-meaning-of-coding-horror/ (July 30th email)'
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quote: The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
author: Dorothy Parker
source: Momentum Thursday September 3, 2015
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quote: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
source: "'Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret' movie"
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quote: I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
author: Michael Jordan
source: 10 Things Successful People Never Do, Medium newsletter Sept 24, 2015
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quote: Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
author: Walter Anderson
source: Sat Oct 3, 2015 Momentum New Tab page
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quote: Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
author: John F. Kennedy
source: Warren Ernst
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quote: "When you stop to think, don't forget to start again."
source: Aunt Bonnie
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quote: Keep your mind open, but not so open that your brain falls out.
source: First heard around my sophomore year at SRC.
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quote: "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
author: Anais Nin
source: Momentum New Tab page
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quote: "Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all."
author: Michael Rivero
source: Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/quotes/
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quote: Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it.
author: Richard Hamming
from: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (1997)
source: Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/quotes/
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Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to do it.
In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.
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quote: The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
author: Alexandra K. Trenfor
source: Momentum Tues Oct 20
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quote: Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
author: Martin Luther King Jr.
source: "Do the Right Thing"
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quote: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
author: Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
when: 13th century
source: Jared Scheib
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quote: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
author: Leonardo DaVinci
source: Guirlaine Belizaire, WeWork daily email October 20, 2015
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quote: Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work
source: https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself
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quote: Being in shape and being able to get into shape aren't the same thing.
source: projectileboy on news.ycombinator.com
source_url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058518
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quote: Shipping beats perfection.
source: Momentum New Tab Page, Mon Nov 16
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quote: There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
author: David Burns
source: Momentum New Tab Page, Fri Dec 4
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quote: And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
author: Abraham Lincoln
source: Zenhabits
source_url: http://zenhabits.net/2008/09/6-questions-to-ask-yourself-to-get-the-most-out-of-life/
note: came across this article I had saved to Pocket (probably still called ReadItLater) from September 2008, over 7 years ago.
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quote: Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
author: Albert Einstein
source: Zenhabits
source_url: http://zenhabits.net/2008/09/6-questions-to-ask-yourself-to-get-the-most-out-of-life/
note: came across this article I had saved to Pocket (probably still called ReadItLater) from September 2008, over 7 years ago.
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quote: We are always getting ready to live but never living.
author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
source: Zenhabits
source_url: http://zenhabits.net/2008/09/6-questions-to-ask-yourself-to-get-the-most-out-of-life/
note: came across this article I had saved to Pocket (probably still called ReadItLater) from September 2008, over 7 years ago.
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quote: Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
author: Robert H. Schuller
source: IFS Dec 24, 2015 "Time inspiration" email
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quote: Don't tell people your dreams. Show them.
source: @johnrampton tweet 1/11/16 12:59pm
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quote: I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
author: Michael Jordan
source: Momentum New Tab page, March 4, 2016
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quote: Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
author: Brian Clough
source: IFS Feb 28, 2016 "Important inspiration" email
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quote: Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
author: Samuel Johnson
source: IFS Jan 2, 2016 "Patience inspiration" email
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quote: Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
author: Albert Einstein
source: IFS Jan 11, 2016 "New inspiration" email
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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
author: Charles M. Schulz
source: IFS Jan 27, 2016 "Human inspiration" email
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quote: Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
author: Naguib Mahfouz
source: Momentum New Tab page, March 16, 2016