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Small: It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you mak
Richard Bach
"It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost"
Richard Bach, Novelist
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Small: My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there
Charles F. Kettering
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there"
Charles F. Kettering, Inventor
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Small: I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"
Richard Bach, Novelist
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Small: Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do w
Richard Bach
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you"
Richard Bach, Novelist
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Small: Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their app
Jonathan Swift
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
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Small: Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life
Eric Hoffer
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
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Small: There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life
Thomas Huxley
"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
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Small: No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in
Thomas Huxley
"No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
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Small: It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people h
Thomas Huxley
"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
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Small: The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is alw
Thomas Aquinas
"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
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Small: There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more
Gertrude Stein
"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more"
Gertrude Stein, Author
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Small: Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth
Thomas Huxley
"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
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Small: One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and
"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve"
George Allen, Sr., Coach
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Small: The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions t
Will Durant
"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers"
Will Durant, Historian
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Small: It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else
Henri Matisse
"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else"
Henri Matisse, Artist
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Small: My favorite things in life dont cost any money. Its really clear that the most precious resource we all have i
Steve Jobs
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Ill always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life Ill sort of have the thread of my life an
Steve Jobs
"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings
Jane Austen
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings"
Jane Austen, Writer
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Small: Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you
Steve Jobs
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by dogma - which is living w
Steve Jobs
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: You cant connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust th
Steve Jobs
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Woz is living his own life now. He hasnt been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down
Steve Jobs
"Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: We dont get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our lif
Steve Jobs
"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Bottom line is, I didnt return to Apple to make a fortune. Ive been very lucky in my life and already have one
Steve Jobs
"Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Again, you cant connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to t
Steve Jobs
"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first f
Jane Austen
"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive"
Jane Austen, Writer
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Small: I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle
Jane Austen
"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle"
Jane Austen, Writer
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Small: These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child
Steve Jobs
"These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Dont lose faith
Steve Jobs
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: Remembering that Ill be dead soon is the most important tool Ive ever encountered to help me make the big choi
Steve Jobs
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and Ive done that sort of thing in my life, but Ive always
Steve Jobs
"I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: I dont think Ive ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my l
Steve Jobs
"I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: I didnt see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever h
Steve Jobs
"I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day
Steve Jobs
"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
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Small: May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law
Immanuel Kant
"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
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Small: Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law
Immanuel Kant
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
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Small: The great duty of life is not to be free from care, but to learn how to bear it with a brave and cheerful spir
William Pennington
"The great duty of life is not to be free from care, but to learn how to bear it with a brave and cheerful spirit"
William Pennington, Politician
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Small: I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing
Terence
"I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing"
Terence, Playwright
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Small: The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet
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Small: Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards
Søren Kierkegaard
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
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