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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
― Thomas Edison

“There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”
― thomas edison

“All bibles are man-made.”
― Thomas A. Edison, Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

“The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
― E.M. Forster, What I Believe and Other Essays

“This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
― E. M. Forster

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
― Paul Cézanne

“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art”
― Paul Cézanne

“A minute in the world's life passes! [...] To become that minute, to be the sensitive plate... give the image of what we see, forgetting everything that has appeared before our time.”
― Paul Cézanne

“I paint as I see, as I feel...They also feel and see like me, but they don't dare...I dare.”
― Paul Cézanne

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice”
― Andre Gide

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”
― André Gide

“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.”
― André Gide

“The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
― André Gide

“We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.”
― André Gide

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
― Andre Gide

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”
― Andre Gide

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
― E.O. Wilson

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
― E.O. Wilson

“You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.”
― Edward O. Wilson

“There must be an ability to pass long hours in study and research with pleasure even though some of the effort will inevitably lead to dead ends. Such is the price of admission.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Letters to a Young Scientist

“Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Letters to a Young Scientist

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates