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    “I think Skyblock at its core is the ultimate challenge in resource management. You spawn on a tiny island in an empty universe. All you have is a tree, some supplies and some dirt to stand on. You have to treasure EVERY dirt block, because if one falls into the void, there's no way to replace it and as you carefully navigate your absurd circumstance, you gain a new appreciation for the few things you have as you meticulously use them to their fullest effect. With nothing but some ice, lava and saplings you slowly transform this empty expanse into a world of your very own. Skyblock teaches us that no matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful. That one day, we'll look back at where we started and be amazed by how far we've come.”
    ― Technoblade
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
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    John Green
    “I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: humor, inspirational, obvious, stupid
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    Timothy Zahn
    “If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”
    ― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
    tags: obvious, subtlety
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    Yogi Berra
    “I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.”
    ― Yogi Berra
    tags: answer, obvious, question
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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
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    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth
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    Epictetus
    “Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
    ― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
    tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read
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    Epictetus
    “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Epictetus
    “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
    ― Epictetus
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    Diogenes Laertius
    “One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.”
    ― Diogenes Laërtius
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    Diogenes Laertius
    “We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.”
    ― Diogenes Laertius
    tags: listening, paraphrased
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    Diogenes Laertius
    “One day a man invited him into a richly furnished house, saying 'be careful not to spit on the floor.' Diogenes, who needed to spit, spat in his face, exclaiming that it was the only dirty place he could find where spitting was permitted.”
    ― Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
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    Diogenes Laertius
    “Step out of my sunlight.”
    ― Diogenes Laertius
    tags: philosophy
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: government, guns, military, military-budget, politics, poverty, war, weapons
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: dislike, hatred, time, waste
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    George Washington
    “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: leadership
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
    ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
    tags: freedom, president, principles, privilege, society
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