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We live like animals and we die like animals, because we are nobodies to each other.

-Nikitin from Durak

Sometimes we don't pick the books we read, they pick us.

-Sam Chaiton
from "The Hurricane"

Einer muss sich quälen, der Schreiber oder der Leser.

- Wolf Schneider

Der Mensch, sobald er einer Gruppe angehört, fängt an zu spinnen.

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Sprachkürze
gibt Denkweite.

- Jean Paul

Wann ist unser Ehrgeiz eine Kompensation unseres Minderwertigkeitsgefühls?
Und wann nicht?

All you need is ignorance and confidence, and the success is sure.

-Mark Twain

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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It's always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

-Grace Hopper

Jede Sekunde produzieren wir dreimal so viele Daten wie die Library of Congress in ihrem gesamten Print-Bestand hat. Das meiste davon ist... nutzloser Kram.

-Nate Silver

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, ' Certainly I can!'
Then get busy and find out how to do it."

-Theodore Roosevelt

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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, ' Certainly I can!'
Then get busy and find out how to do it."

-Theodore Roosevelt

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"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, ' Certainly I can!'
Then get busy and find out how to do it."

-Theodore Roosevelt

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, ' Certainly I can!'
Then get busy and find out how to do it.

-Theodore Roosevelt

If I have seen further,
it is by standing on the sholders of Giants.

-Sir Isaac Newton

I feel like a child playing on the sea-shore, while the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered before me.

- Sir Isaac Newton

Heuristik –
die Kunst, mit begrenztem Wissen und wenig Zeit zu guten Lösungen zu kommen.

-Wikipedia

No index can be better than the data it uses. But this is an argument for improving the data, not abandoning the index.

-UN, 1992

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

– Stephen King

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.

-Tony Stark

The failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.

- Peter F. Drucker

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Ideologies seperate us. Dreams and anguish bring
us together.

- Eugene Ionesco

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People want to feel good about themselves. They want to believe they are competent, worthy and loved by others. The desire to self-enhancement is regarded as fundamental to human functioning.

-Brown, 1993

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People want to feel good about themselves. They want to believe they are competent, worthy and loved by others. The desire to self-enhancement is regarded as fundamental to human functioning.

-Brown, 1993

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In the future,
everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes.

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You are fabulous
but this is intimidating.

Love it,
change it
or leave it.

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They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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Don't be trapped by dogma.

-Steve Jobs

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Don't be trapped by dogma.

-Steve Jobs

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First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Don't be trapped by dogma.

-Steve Jobs

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The future is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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The future is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."
Leonardo
Da Vinci

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"Also das ist die Hölle. Ich hätte es nie geglaubt ... Wißt ihr noch: Schwefel, Scheiterhaufen, Rost... Was für Albernheiten. Ein Rost ist gar nicht nötig, die Hölle, das sind die andern."

Garcin

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"Also das ist die Hölle. Ich hätte es nie geglaubt ... Wißt ihr noch: Schwefel, Scheiterhaufen, Rost... Was für Albernheiten. Ein Rost ist gar nicht nötig, die Hölle, das sind die andern."

Garcin

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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