A collection of Quotes I like
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"You do it because you want to. Whether or not anyone shows up. You do it because that is the kind of world you want to live in. Whether or not anyone else wants to live in that world." - John Rinaldi
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Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. -Delphic Oracle / Spartan Proverb
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"The future rushes toward us at an unstoppable pace. For those who act, greet it with glee; for those who chose the status quo, greet it with fear. - Rick Schlegel (my dad)
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“There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.” –Natalie Clifford Barney
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Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
– André Gide, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
– Vaclav Havel, Award winner Czech President and Essayist
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
– Arthur C. Clarke, Writer, Inventor and Futurist
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
– Arthur C. Clarke, Writer, Inventor and Futurist
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman
He also said: “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
― Richard P. Feynman
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
― Richard P. Feynman
And Finally, and this applies on many levels:
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
-- Jorge Luis Borges
The Quotable Heathervescent
"I am a blank canvas, and my life is the painting." -heather
"I'm a Gen-Xer, I'm jaded about everything." -heather
My first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant me the thoughts, words, and deeds likely to render my command most pleasing to the gods and to bring myself, my friends, and my city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage.
- Heathervescent, adapted from Xenophon, The Cavalry Commander
