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At times of change, the learners are the ones who will inherit the world, while the knowers will be beautifully prepared for a world which no longer exists.

Alistair Smith (via joshuakaufman)

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On Lying

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

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Would You Tell Me Please...

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 6

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It Seems to Me Now...

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby

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So Avoid Using the Word 'very'

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys — to woo women — and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

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Jobs Are Not Big Enough for People

Jobs are not big enough for people. You ask most people who they are, they define themselves by their jobs. I’m a doctor, I’m a radio announcer, I’m a carpenter. If someone asks _me_, I say "I’m Amanda McKenny, and at certain points in time, I do things for a living".

Working by Studs Terkel

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Failure Teaches Us

Failure teaches us that life is but a draft, a long rehearsal for a show that will never play.

Hipolito, “Amelie”, 2001

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Of All the Words

Of all the words
Of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these—
It might have been.

John Whittier

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You Must Not For One Instant...

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Daisaku Ikeda

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