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  1. Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #629

  2. Code is what nuts and bolts were a hundred years ago. |
     
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    Work

    #628 source

  3. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. |
     
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    Mankind

    #627

  4. 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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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #624

  5. Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other. |
     
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    Design

    #621

  6. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. |
     
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    Mankind

    #619

  7. Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #618

  8. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. |
     
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    Happiness

    #615

  9. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? |
     
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    Work

    #613

  10. It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #612

  11. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. |
     
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    Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #611

  12. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #608

  13. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #607

  14. Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. |
     
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    Knowledge & Intelligence

    #605

  15. At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. |
     
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    Life and Death

    #603

  16. If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. |
     
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    Creativity

    #602

  17. You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. |
     
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    Career

    #601

  18. Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. |
     
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    Happiness

    #599

  19. Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.
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    Creativity

    #596

  20. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken |
     
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    #594

  21. Don't count the things you do. Do the things that count. |
     
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    #593

  22. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. |
     
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    Work

    #590

  23. Remember that failure is an event, not a person. |
     
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    Work

    #588

  24. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. |
     
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    Mankind

    #587