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    Blaise Pascal
    “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

    (Letter 16, 1657)”
    ― Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
    tags: brevity, conciseness, correspondence, humor, letters, pithy, wit, writing
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    William Shakespeare
    “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: brevity, wit
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: brevity, writing
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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.”
    ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    tags: brevity, etiquette, politeness, sincerity
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    George Burns
    “The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”
    ― George Burns
    tags: brevity, humor, religion
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
    tags: fear-of-unknown
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    Ryan Holiday
    “Every negative has a positive. Push a negative hard enough and deep enough that it will break through into its counterside.”
    ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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    Ryan Holiday
    “Bad luck is actually a chance for us to make up some time. We're like runners who train on hills, or at an altitude so they can beat the runners who expected the course would be flat.”
    ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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    Ryan Holiday
    “If something is in our control, its worth every ounce of our efforts and energy. Death is not one of those things. It is not in our control how long we'll live or what will come and take us from life. But thinking about mortality creates real perspective, and urgency. It doesn't need to be depressing. Because its invigorating.”
    ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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    Ryan Holiday
    “Philosophy's true use - "An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships".”
    ― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
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    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in
    “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
    ― Miles Kington
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    Richard Branson
    “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”
    ― Richard Branson
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    Vishen Lakhiani
    “Words are powerful, as they influence how we see the world.”
    ― Vishen Lakhiani, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms
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    Seth Godin
    “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”
    ― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
    tags: communicate, communication, connected, connection, group, groups, human-beings, human-nature, humanity, tribe, tribes
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
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    “When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.”
    ― Michael Josephson
    tags: being-yourself, true, truthful
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    “To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.”
    ― Michael Josephson
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: confidence, encouragement, heart, human-experience, knowledge, positivity, self-esteem, understanding, wisdom
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    Anne Lamott
    “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
    ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
    tags: books, literature, reading, words, writing
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
    tags: community, diversity
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: feelings, persistence, problems
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    Jules Renard
    “If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”
    ― Jules Renard
    tags: advice, fear, loneliness, right-and-wrong
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: change, perception
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    Simon Sinek
    “Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
    ― Simon Sinek
    tags: passion, work-life-balance
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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    Julian Barnes
    “The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”
    ― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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  • #29
    “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
    ― Ambrose Redmoon
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