I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
Immortality
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
~ Susan Ertz
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Vulnerability
Vulnerable is the only way we can feel when we truly share the art we’ve made. When we share it, when we connect, we have shifted the power and made ourselves naked in front of the person we’ve given the gift of our art to. We have no excuses, no manual to point to, no standard operating procedures to protect us. And that is part of our gift.
~ Seth Godin
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Hate or pain
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~ James Baldwin
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Character
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Repetition
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
~ André Gide
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Cooperation
Our world is an ecosystem in which our only real chance at survival as a species is cooperation, community, and care, but it’s being led by people who believe in an ego system, run on competition, power, and self-interest.
~ Austin Kleon
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A wave
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean.
~ Alan Watts
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Incompleteness
True genius shudders at incompleteness—and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
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Power
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
~ Plato
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Clear and simple
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Holidays
One of the most reliable signs that you need a holiday is the conviction that you cannot possibly spare the time to take one.
~ Bryan Magee
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Connection
Effort isn’t the point, impact is. If you solve the problem in three seconds but have the guts to share it with me, it’s still art. And if you move ten thousand pounds of granite but the result doesn’t connect with me, I’m sorry for your calluses, but you haven’t made art, at least not art for me.
~ Seth Godin
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Imagination
We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
~ David Lynch
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Feeling
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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Transformative
I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Love and loyalty
It’s easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
~ William Gibson
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Malice
Any sufficiently advanced negligence is indistinguishable from malice.
~ Deb Chachra
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Wonders
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therein to be content.
~ Helen Keller
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Love versus violence
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
~ John Lennon
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