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“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary. ”
— Seneca
“In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.”
— Steve Jobs
“Fools read fast. Geniuses reread.”
— Maxime Lagace
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
— Buddha
“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and got to work.”
— Stephen King
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.”
— Bruce Lee
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.”
— Joseph Sugarman
“Well done is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.”
— T.S. Eliot
“Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.”
— Brian Tracy
“Be yourself; because an original is worth more than any copy.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question.”
— John Tukey
“Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff.”
— Betty White
“Fail faster, try again sooner.”
— Anonymous
“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.”
— Bill Gates
“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
— Steve Jobs
“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Comedy = tragedy + time.”
— Carol Burnett
“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.”
— John Eliot
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”
— Robert H. Schuller

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