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#151

“Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.”
― Greg Egan, Oceanic

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#152

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: courage, curiosity, hopefulness, motivational, perseverance, universe, wonder

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#153

“Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.”
― John F. Nash

tags: people, society

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#154

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#155

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
― Milton Friedman

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#156

“In year 1500, there were about 500 million Homo Sapiens in the entire world. Today, there are 7 billion. The total value of goods and services produced by humankind in the year 1500 is estimated at $250 billion, in today's dollars. Nowadays the value of a year of human production is close to $60 trillion. In 1500 humanity consumed about 13 trillion calories of energy per day. Today, we consume 1,500 trillion calories a day. (Take a second look at those figures -- human population has increased fourteen-fold, production 240-fold, and energy consumption 115-fold.)”
― Yuval Noah Harari

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#157

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
― Horace

tags: be-strong, be-yourself, independence, inspiration, inspirational, life, living, rule, self-help, stay-strong, strength, the-mind

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#158

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

tags: atheism, creativity

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#159

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#160

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#161

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

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#162

“A person hears only what they understand.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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#163

“The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.”
― Franciscan friar William of Ockham

tags: assumptions, correct, explanation

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#164

“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.”
― Seth Lloyd

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#165

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
― Ayn Rand

tags: books

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#166

“No person is free who is not master of himself.”
― Epictetus

tags: self-discipline

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#167

“Genius is eternal patience. ”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

tags: artistic, inspirational

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#168

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#169

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

tags: philosophy

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#170

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: brevity, wit

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#171

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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#172

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#173

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#174

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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#175

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking

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#176

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

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#177

“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, paraphrased, science, systems

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#178

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#179

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: science

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#180

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
― Otto Rank

tags: misattributed-plutarch

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