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  1. We can only learn to love by loving. |
     
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    Love

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  2. We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

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  3. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. |
     
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    Life and Death

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  4. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. |
     
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    Mankind

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  5. Love is the quality of attention we pay to things. Love is both the shrine and the idol. |
     
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  6. I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. |
     
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    Happiness

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  7. If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? |
     
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    Technology

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  8. I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

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  9. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

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  10. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. |
     
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    Life and Death

    #937

  11. People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people resist is not change per se, but loss. |
     
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  12. Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. |
     
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    Creativity

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  13. Most people think their experiences show them who they are, not what they have chosen. They do not know they have the ability to shape their experiences like a potter shapes clay. You are the artist and you are also the art that is being created. You choose the colours, where to add and remove clay, and you determine whether the art will be dark and depressing or light and joyful. There is no limit to your creative capacity. |
     
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    Happiness

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  14. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

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  15. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

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  16. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.  |
     
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    #924 source

  17. Watch what you believe because your beliefs have a way of becoming your reality. |
     
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    Happiness

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  18. If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: it took us 5000 years to put wheels on our luggage. |
     
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    Design

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  19. If I only have a hammer, I treat all problems as though they were a nail. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

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  20. Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine, should be. |
     
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    Technology

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  21. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #919

  22. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. |
     
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    Life and Death

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  23. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. |
     
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    Mankind

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  24. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #916 source