You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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In theory, lobbying is a constitutionally protected form of redressing grievances. Businesses have every right to argue their case in front of government officials whose policies affect their industries. In practice, lobbying has become a pernicious force in national life, courtesy of corporate America, which hugely outspends other constituencies—labor unions, consumer and environmental groups—on an enterprise now dedicated to honing ever more sophisticated methods of shaping public opinion in service of its own ends.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.
~ John le Carré
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To college-bound students, I would say this: The college campus is full of salesmen eager to get you to buy the deluxe model without so much as a test drive. But it’s your life and your mind, and—as of present writing—you have every right to think and speak and write for yourself. You’re needed out here.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin
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One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.
~ Lewis Mumford
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
~ Auguste Comte
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