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Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny. ↗

— Wil Zeus

#philosophical #thought-provoking-humourous #thought-provoking

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels. ↗

— Tim Allen

#hateful #levels #loving #mean #metaphysical

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further. ↗

— William Coperthwaite

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Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life. (as said by Mrs. Pearson) ↗

— Adam Gopnik

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It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'. ↗

— Gasmaskman

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The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English--a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger translation? You don't jump essence, you jump environs! ↗

— Dew Platt

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be. ↗

— J.C. Marino

#epic #fantasy #inspirational #philosophical #religious

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole. ↗

— Vitruvius

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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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