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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. |
– Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White
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A technology is not an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensory and cognitive system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. When these ratios change men change. |
– Marshall McLuhan
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When you play, play hard. When you work, don't play at all. |
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Be clear first and clever second. If you have to throw one of those out, throw out clever. |
– Jason Fried
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
– Albert Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. |
– Albert Einstein
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Don't design for everyone; it's impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy. |
– Leisa Reichelt
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The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. |
– Richard Saul Wurman
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We feel better when we find ways to make other people feel better. Kindness towards others is like a sandwich that feeds two. |
– Mike Monteiro
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Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all. |
– Kurt D. Cobain
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. |
– Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. |
– Saint Augustine of Hippo
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The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. |
– Saint Augustine of Hippo
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. |
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. |
– Machiavelli
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There is little difference between obstacle and opportunity. The wise are able to turn both to their advantage. |
– Machiavelli
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Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing. |
– Rob Brezsny
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If you can see a thing whole… it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. |
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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Gravity pulls me to the future, bits of me falling off along the way. Each of us disappears into the mist of the possible. In our minds, time is gravity’s other side. |
– Michael Frame
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What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. |
– Lisel Mueller
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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. |
– Maria Edgeworth
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. |
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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The reality you live in is partially up to you. The fantasy you live in is entirely up to you. |
– Najwa Zebian
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Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far. |
– Jodi Picoult
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