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The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.

—Lisa Williams

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Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

—Grenville Kleiser

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We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

—Eli Attie

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The entire recent history of biology shows that we are, to a remarkable degree, the results of the interactions of an extremely complex array of molecules; and the aspect of biology that was once considered its holy of holies, the nature of the genetic material, has now been fundamentally understood in terms of the chemistry of its constituent nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, and their operational agents, the proteins.

—Carl Sagan in The Dragons of Eden

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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call "mind"—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

—Carl Sagan in The Dragons of Eden

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.

—Elon Musk

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Relationships are not where we go to have fun. Relationships are where we go to heal and where we go to learn. And who you're going to attract is the person that's going to bring to the forefront the thing you need to learn or heal or the thing that's going to help you grow the most.

—Iyanla Vanzant

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

—Nikki Giovanni

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Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads/Let love through good deeds show.

—Edwin Arnold

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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

—Alan Alda

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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

—T. S. Eliot

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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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