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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. |
– Studs Terkel
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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. |
– Studs Terkel
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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. |
– Alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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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. |
– Alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time. |
– Rabindranath Tagore
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. |
– Rabindranath Tagore
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. |
– Rabindranath Tagore
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila. |
– Mitch Ratcliffe
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. |
– Robert Frost
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. |
– Robert Frost
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. |
– Robert Frost
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. |
– Robert Frost
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These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. |– Robert Frost
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. |
– Robert Frost
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. |
– Tom Bodett
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
– Henry Adams
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. |
– Henry Adams
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. |
– Henry Adams
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |
– Henry Adams
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. |
– Wayne Gretzky
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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. |
– Shirley Chisholm
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If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. |
– Shirley Chisholm
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You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. |
– David Carson
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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. |
– Denis Diderot
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