"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves."

Brouhours on Misfortunes
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Skepticism
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best."

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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Zappa, Frank on Time and Time Management
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"So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)"

Hesse, Hermann on art
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"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."

Hesse, Hermann on Home
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adversity
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"We have inherited the past; we can create the future."

Unknown, Source on The future
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"If you've never failed you've never tried."

Unknown, Source on Failure
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"Do not fear mistakes -- there are none."

Davis, Miles on Mistakes
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on Death and Dying
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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."

Davis, Miles on Music
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"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."

Seuss, Dr. on Fantasy
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"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."

Unknown, Source on Encouragement
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"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

Lee, Bruce on Truth
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Hendrix, Jimi on Power
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"Life flows on within you and without you."

Harrison, George on Life and Living
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hesse, Hermann on Hatred
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"Cynicism is indeed negative for your mind, but if you can allow it as your cloud to your sunshine, then it may strengthen you to see the truth."

Qi Nyong on Truth
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"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on Love
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"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."

Carlyle, Thomas on Music
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"The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self."

Carlyle, Thomas on Belief
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"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."

Chopra, Deepak on Heart
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Rushdie, Salman on Myth
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"Our lives teach us who we are."

Rushdie, Salman on Self-knowledge
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"The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse."

Unknown, Source on Desire
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"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

Burns, George on Government
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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

Lubbock, Sir John on Rest
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"The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship."

Szasz, Thomas on Intimacy
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"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore."

Szasz, Thomas on Insecurity
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"The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

Szasz, Thomas on Aid and Assistance
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"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."

Szasz, Thomas on Education
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"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."

Camus, Albert on Production
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."

Camus, Albert on Music
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

Camus, Albert on Greatness
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"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-Tzu on Courage
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"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."

Lao-Tzu on Words
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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness."

Lao-Tzu on Happiness
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"When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on Leaders and Leadership
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"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it."

Fromm, Erich on Time and Time Management
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