May 2013
23 posts
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“The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to...”
– Christopher Lasch
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“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.”
– Benito Mussolini
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“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple...”
– Archibald MacLeish
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“From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;...”
– JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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“After a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
– Albert Camus
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Yoda on what's here now
Luke Skywalker: I'm looking for someone.
Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hm?
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“We were making the future,” he said, and hardly any of us troubled to...”
– H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes
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“The challenge of communication isn’t to never miscommunicate, it’s...”
– Seth Godin
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“If we thought the success of our investment depended on them taking our advice,...”
– Charles Munger
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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is...”
– Antisthenes, Greek Philosopher of Athens, Disciple of Socrates, 445-365 BC
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“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on...”
– Robert Jordan, The Great Hun
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“He came to the river. The river was there.”
– Ernest Hemingway, “Big Two-Hearted River”
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“You are not your fucking khakis.”
– Tyler Durden
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“Are we trying to avoid the unsafe? Or merely the feeling of being unsafe?...”
– Seth Godin
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“Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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“There is no best jazz performance. That’s why it’s interesting.”
– Seth Godin
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April 2013
46 posts
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“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“Then out spake brave Horatius,
the Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon...”
– The Lays of Ancient Rome
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“We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone… Every...”
– William James
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“When the eagle is silent the parrots begin to squawk.”
– Winston Churchill
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“Difficult problems are best solved while they are easy. Great projects are best...”
– Lao Tzu (via onebiteatatime)
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“The way to transcend karma lies in the proper use of the mind and the will. The...”
– Bruce Lee
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“How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“You’re born alone, and you die alone. The world just puts a ton of stuff...”
– Don Draper
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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
– Sun Tzu
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“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the...”
– Ivan Illich
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“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Beware of dissipating your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it...”
– Johann Von Goethe
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“Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it.”
– Walter Benjamin
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“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
– Stephen King
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“The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely...”
– Walter Benjamin
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“Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
– Stephen King
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“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.”
– Henry Miller
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“By far the greatest thing is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing...”
– Aristotle 