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• Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Reality, Years, Ordinary

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• However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Focus, Desire

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• Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Choices, Example, Programming

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM 14 (4), April 1971.

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• Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Two, Imagination

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• To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

  Pema Chodron

  Alive, Nests, Awake

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decisions We Make, Woven, Life Is

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.347, Macmillan

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• A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Real

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• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Self, Forever, Done

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Adoption, Democracy

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  Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wine, Trying

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 16, 2016

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• How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Crush, Pain, Disappointment

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from May 17, 2013

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• The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Savages, Wiser

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

  John Keats

  Book, Gone, Experiencing Things

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 279

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• I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Moving, Anger

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.105, A&C Black

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• Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Judgement

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• All knowledge hurts.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Bones

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Dream, Business

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• Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.

  Scott Lynch

  Years, Play, Giving

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.414, Del Rey

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• There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Looks, Want

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Art, Creativity

  Steve Martin (2007). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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