Silence

The path to all great things passes through silence.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Dogs

We give them the love we can spare, the time we can spare. In return, dogs have given us their absolute all. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

~ Roger Caras

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Attention

The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.

~ Walter Anderson

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Humor

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

~ Bern Williams

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Exceptional

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it’s also the first to be replaced.

~ Marilyn vos Savant

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Ingenuity

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

~ George S. Patton

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Mystery

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Possessions

You can’t have everything.

Where would you put it?

~ Steven Wright

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Communication

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

~ Cicero

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Unnecessary

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… It has no survival value; Rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

~ C.S. Lewis

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Future

The present moment was once the unimaginable future.

~ Stewart Brand

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First judgements

[R]eject the first judgements and the objections that spring out of them because those objections are so often rooted in fear. […] This is radically different from how we’ve been taught to act. Be realistic, we’re told. Listen to feedback. Play well with others. Compromise. Well, what if the “other” party is wrong? What if conventional wisdom is too conservative? It’s this all-too-common impulse to complain, defer, and then give up that holds us back.

~ Ryan Holiday

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Desperation

People are getting a little desperate. They might not show their best elements to you. You must never lower yourself to being a person you don’t like. There is no better time than now to have a moral and civic backbone. To have a moral and civic true north. This is a tremendous opportunity for you, a young person, to be heroic.

~ Henry Rollins

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Self-conceit

Peole who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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Petty hazards

Anybody can rise to meet a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.

~ Jean Webster

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Begin. Begin!

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin!

~ Donald Barthelme

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Language

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

~ Richard Chenevix Trench

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Theater

The truth is the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theater.

~ David Foster Wallace

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Manual labor of the mind

Writing is essentially donkey work, manual labor of the mind. What makes it bearable are those moments (which sometimes can last for weeks, months) when the book takes over, takes on a life of its own, goes off in unexpected directions.

~ John Gregory Dunne

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New ideas

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

~ Oliver Wendell Berry

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