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Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none. |
– Lois Lowry
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Code is what nuts and bolts were a hundred years ago. |
– Erik Spiekermann
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. |
– Confucius
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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. |
– Confucius
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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. |
– Joel Spolsky
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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. |
– Nelson Mandela
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Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. |
– Nelson Mandela
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. |
– Henry David Thoreau
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? |
– Henry David Thoreau
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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. |
– Henry David Thoreau
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. |
– Henry David Thoreau
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. |
– Henry David Thoreau
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. |
– Henry David Thoreau
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined. |
– Toni Morrison
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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. |
– Toni Morrison
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. |
– Toni Morrison
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. |
– Toni Morrison
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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. |
– Natalie Angier
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it. |– Bertolt Brecht
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken |
– Samuel Johnson
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Don't count the things you do. Do the things that count. |
– Zig Ziglar
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There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. |
– Zig Ziglar
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person. |
– Zig Ziglar
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. |
– Zig Ziglar
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