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Chuck Norris: It’s the insecure kids
“It’s the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It’s not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It’s the insecure kids.” —Chuck Norris.
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Chuck Norris: Aging society
“The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.” —Chuck Norris.
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Chuck Norris: Men are like steel
“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.” —Chuck Norris.
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Henrik Ibsen: One black spot
“Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.” —Henrik Ibsen.
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J R R Tolkien: Live dragon
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” — J R R Tolkien.
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Earl Warren: Social progress versus socialism
“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.” —Earl Warren.
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Gordon Bell: Most reliable components
“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.” —Gordon Bell.
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Len Deighton: Means and ends
“When the end is lawful the means are also lawful.” —Len Deighton, The Harry Palmer Quartet (Secret File, #1-4).
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Len Deighton: Capitalism versus socialism
“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.”—Len Deighton, The Harry Palmer Quartet (Secret File, #1-4).
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Len Deighton: Second book
“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.” —Len Deighton.
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John Updike: The average book
“Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.” —John Updike.
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Phil Jackson: Winning team
‘With the Bulls I’ve learned that the most effective way to forge a winning team is to call on the players’ need to connect with something larger than themselves. Even for those who don’t consider themselves “spiritual” in a conventional sense, creating a successful team—whether it’s an NBA champion or a record-setting sales force—is essentially…
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Orison Swett Marden: Grand passion
“I do not believe that anybody in any circumstances can be happy until he expresses that which God has made to dominate in his life; until he has given vent to that grand passion which speaks loudest in his nature; until he has made the best use of that gift which was intended to take…
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Timnit Gebru: You’re going to have problems
“If you’re building an algorithm without understanding the context in which it will be used… you’re going to have problems.” —Timnit Gebru.
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Marc Randolph: Dozen sloppy tests
“In entrepreneurship … I’ve learned it’s impossible to tell if it’s a good idea in advance, so I no longer waste time ‘thinking things through’. Instead, my mind immediately switches to searching for some quick, cheap, and easy way to test it. A dozen sloppy tests teach me more than a single perfect one.” —Marc…
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Ralph Nader: Solar energy
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”— Ralph Nader.
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Ernest Hemingway: The world breaks everyone
“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, some are strong at the broken places.”— Ernest Hemingway.
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Richard Steele: She is exquisitely handsome
“It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love, and yet attend to business. A gentleman asked me this morning, ‘What news from Lisbon?’ and I answered, ‘She is exquisitely handsome.’” —Richard Steele.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Chariot of the sun
“Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbour. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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JR Moehringer: Anger as fuel
“The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.”— JR Moehringer.
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H W Fowler: Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid
“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” —H.W. Fowler.
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Elizabeth Rose: Suffering
“Suffering isn’t something I avoid. It’s something I love—I love what it brings, what’s on the other side of it. When we’re climbing Mt. Everest, we’re all suffering together, facing the same battle, chasing the same dream. Suffering makes the accomplishment that much more fulfilling.” —Elizabeth Rose.
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Yuri Gagarin: Orbiting Earth
“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!” —Yuri Gagarin.
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Rick Rubin: Biggest mistake musicians make
‘“Do you know the biggest mistake most musicians make?” He said. “Their first album comes from love, heartbreak, passion, or depression. They have no expectation of how the world will respond. They write it from the heart, and if it catches on, they’re validated by the world. But then they start writing their second album,…
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Emma Goldman: If voting changed anything
“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” — Emma Goldman.
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Filipe Fortes: Debugging
“Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.” —Filipe Fortes.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti: Beauty
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.” —Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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Dalai Lama XIV: Love
“Love is the absence of judgment.” —Dalai Lama XIV.
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Lucy Larcom: Living shapes
“Sometimes they seem like living shapes, / The people of the sky, / Guests in white raiment coming down / From heaven, which is close by.” —Lucy Larcom.
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William Inge: Undetected plagiarism
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” —William Inge.
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Julia Cameron: Creativity
‘Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: “And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!” It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may…
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Rabindranath Tagore: Everything comes to us
“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”— Rabindranath Tagore.
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Dr. Julie Gurner: When motivation wanes
“When motivation wanes, the biggest mistake people make is *waiting* for something to shift. No, no…do not do this. Tomorrow will come & nothing will change. You have to take action to change it.”— Dr. Julie Gurner (@DrGurner).
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Dr. Seuss: Unless someone like you
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” —Dr. Seuss.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Faith looks up
“Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Dick Cheney: Oil and gas
“The good Lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to US.” — Dick Cheney.
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George Orwell: War-propaganda
“All war-propaganda, all screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”— George Orwell.
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Neil Sedaka: Nervous as an American
“I worked at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for some parties, and he seemed nice enough — but I don’t think he’s presidential. I think he’s incompetent; I disagree with his policies, and I’m nervous as an American.” —Neil Sedaka.
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Neil Sedaka: Three kinds of songs
“I think there are three kinds of songs; it’s only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It’s an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.” —Neil Sedaka.
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Tim Cook: Humanity and AI
“What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity.” — Tim Cook.
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Wernher von Braun: Research
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”— Wernher von Braun.
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John Steinbeck: Concomitants of failure
“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”…
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A Gide: All things have already been said
“Tout choses sont dites deja, mais comme personne n’ecoute, il faut toujours recommencer.” —A. Gide. [ All things have already been said, but since no one listens, one must always start again. ]
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Anton Chekhov: Reason and justice
“Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.”—Anton Chekhov.
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Lucius Seneca: Be a different person
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”— Lucius Seneca.
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Andrew Gazdecki: Founders figure out a way to win
“Founders don’t cry about problems. Because no one cares. They just figure out a way to win.” —Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki).
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W E B Du Bois: Bitter experience
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.” —W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Stanley Kubrick: Truth of a thing
“The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.” —Stanley Kubrick.
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Jean-Michel Jarre: Not talking to our neighbours anymore
“We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.”—Jean-Michel Jarre.
