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• When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Answers, Young, Existence

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• I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Perception, Flesh, Silent

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• Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

  Pete Wentz

  People, Trying, Looks

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• The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

  Laura Miller

  Attention, Demand, Commodity

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• A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

  Bill Vaughan

  Effort, Climbs

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• Holding back is so close to stealing.

  Neil Young

  Humor, Stealing, Holding Back

  Song: One More Sign, Album: Neil Young Archives Volume I (1963 - 1972)(8 CD with 160 page book)

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• Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

  Peter Drucker

  Humor

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• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Animal, Fur

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• Quality requires your Presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humor, Quality, Your Presence

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Humor, Caring

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Humor, Your Presence, Sells

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• It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

  Josh Billings

  Humor, Rich, Knows

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• They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Humor

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• One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Running, Humor

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

  Bob Parsons

  Humor, Opportunity, Would Be

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• The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Inability, Remember

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• Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Humor, Caring

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• The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

  Thelonious Monk

  Humor, Cat, Chance

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Humor, Oxygen

  The Guardian, June 14, 1989.

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• Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ornaments, Clearness

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution". Book by Ayn Rand, p. 123, 1971.

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• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

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