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  1. What are we in relation to our own minds and bodies – or, seeing that there is not a single word, let us use it in a hyphenated form – our own mind-bodies? What are we in relation to this total organism in which we live? |
     
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    On Mankind

    #361

  2. Love is the mystery of water and a star. |
     
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    On Love

    #347

  3. Laughter is the language of the soul. |
     
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    On Happiness

    #345

  4. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. |
     
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    On Love

    #333

  5. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
    Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.     |
     
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    On Life and Death

    #321

  6. Design will remain broken until we decouple design schools from art schools. |
     
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    On Design

    #314 source

  7. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. |
     
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    On Mankind

    #305 source

  8. It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. |
     
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    On Struggle, challenges and difficulties

    #276

  9. What you save on budget, you take on in risk. |
     
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    On Design

    #274 source

  10. Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends. For what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? |
     
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    On Happiness

    #265

  11. Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. |
     
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    On Work

    #264

  12. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. |
     
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    On Work

    #262 source

  13. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. |
     
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    #168

  14. We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. |
     
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    #255

  15. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. |
     
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    On Career

    #248

  16. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. |
     
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    #246

  17. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. |
     
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    #244

  18. The role of a leader is not to come up with great ideas but to create an environment in which ideas can happen. |
     
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    #233

  19. You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding. |
     
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    #193 source

  20. Stop consuming images and start producing them. |
     
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    #194 source

  21. If I had five minutes to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first three sharpening my axe. |
     
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    On Work

    #198 source

  22. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. |
     
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    #215

  23. Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. |
     
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    #216

  24. If you are going through hell, keep going. |
     
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    #220

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