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We cling to memories as if they define us but... they really don't. What we do is what defines us.
memory, point_of_view |
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2017 |
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
improbable, probability, truth |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
1890 |
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
beauty, happiness |
Stendhal |
1822 |
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
doubt, certainty, philosophy |
Voltaire |
1770 |
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
history, memory, mistake |
George Santayana |
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Religion: Because thinking is hard.
religion, thinking, laziness |
(unknown) |
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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
religion, morality |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something!
enemy, persuasion |
Winston Churchill |
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Any man can stay sober in a desert, he mused, but only the loyal can sit in an oasis and refuse to part his lips.
temptation, virtue, desert, loyalty |
Dan Brown |
2017 |
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.
honesty |
Richard P. Feynman |
1974 |
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
conflict, intelligence, wisdom |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1936 |
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
Martin_Eden, limit, knowledge, wisdom |
Jack London |
1909 |
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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo.
time, stone, water, drop, persistence |
Ovid |
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Never memorize what you can look up in books.
memory |
Albert Einstein |
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Narrar é criar, pois viver é apenas ser vivido.
narrative, story, creativity, philosophy |
Fernando Pessoa |
1982 |
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
narrative, story, creativity, philosophy |
Fernando Pessoa |
1982 |
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
death, decision |
Steve Jobs |
2005-06-14 |
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Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
development, innovation |
Mark Zuckerberg |
2009 |
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
writing, philosophy, time |
Omar Khayyam |
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Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
philosophy |
Omar Khayyam |
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