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Gustave Flaubert on importance of routine

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so you can be violent and original in your work

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F Scott Fitzgerald on dark night of the soul

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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning

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Anonymous on what sort of load to ask for

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Don’t ask for a light load but rather a strong back

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William Gibson on the future today

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The future is here. It is just unevenly distributed

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Richard Feynman on fooling yourself

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The first principle is you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool

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Kurt Vonnegut on the golden rule

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There’s only one rule I know of: you’ve got to be kind

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Oscar Wilde on existence vs living

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To live is the rarest thing in this world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Loesje on waiting and the future

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The longer you wait for the future the shorter it will be.

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Dwight L Moody on who you are in the dark

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Character is what you are in the dark

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Mark Twain on taking what does not belong to you

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It is better to take what not does belong to you than to let it lie around neglected

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Anonymous on how a man got to the top of the mountain

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Remember when you see a man at the top of the mountain, he did not fall there

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Frank Sinatra on whatever gets you through the night

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I’m for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquillisers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

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Benjamin Franklin on lost time

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Lost time is never found again

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Pablo Picasso on what art is

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Art is theft

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George Matthew Allen on value of many interests

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People with many interests live, not only longer, but happier

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on what every artist is at the start

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Every artist was first an amateur

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Unknown on results or excuses

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You can have results or you can have your excuses. You cannot have both

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George Burns on looking towards the future

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I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life

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Oscar Wilde on where we are and what we look at

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

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Samuel Beckett on what the particular contains

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In the particular is contained the universal

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Aldous Huxley on what ceilings become

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Every ceiling, wheb reached, becomes a floor one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on knowing

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on what our goals need to be

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It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise

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Mother Teresa on casting a stone

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples

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Benjamin Franklin on net worth

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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

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Ronald Reagan on hard work

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I’ve heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance

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Sue Grafton on that small voice

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Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what’s important and what’s not

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John Steinbeck on value of winter

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What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness

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Charles Darwin on what ignorance begets

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

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F Scott Fitzgerald on the direction out boat is heading

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

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Ursula K. le Guin on walls

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The worst walls are the ones you put there—you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors

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Henry David Thoreau on good things

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All good things are wild and free

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Socrates on the unexamined life

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The unexamined life is not worth living

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Antonii Porchia on straight lines

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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life

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Abraham Maslow on having a toolkit

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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail

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Oscar Wilde on moderation

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Everything in moderation including moderation

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Herman Melville on what lies ahead

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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

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Napoleon Hill on a winning combination

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success

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Oscar Wilde on who people are

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Mike Tyson on having a plan

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Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face

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Louis Armstrong on what happens to Musicians

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Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them

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Mark Twain on Courage

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear

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Yogi Berra on theory

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n theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not

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George Orwell on what liberty is

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

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Sigmund Freud on the struggle years

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful

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Michaelangeo on mastery

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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all

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Lao Tzu on time

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Time is a created thing. To say, ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to’.

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Mark Twain on what makes life worth living

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life

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Haruki Murakami on time

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Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

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Leonard Bernstein on acheiving great things

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To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

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Tennessee Williams on security

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Security is a kind of death, I think

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Aristotle on mark of an educated mind

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

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Aristotle on the educated mind

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It is the mark if an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought withiut accepting it

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Albert Camus on what we find in winter

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In the depths of winter, I finally learned within me there lay an invincible summer

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