There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-- Alfred Korzybski
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
-- Elizabeth Bowen
Prodigy is at its essence: adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.
-- Octavia E. Butler (Parable of the Sower)
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
-- Marlene Dietrich
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This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Growth: Stay curious -- never dismiss an idea before you understand it; don't be satisfied with what you think you know. Stay critical -- don't blindly accept an idea because it has been around for a while or because lots of people believe in it. Go back to first principles.
-- François Chollet (@fchollet)
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You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.
-- Frida Kahlo
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We should all strive to become a cell in the global brain.
-- Tim Berners-Lee
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It is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
-- Harold Evans
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
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