This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature.
- Don DeLillo
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- Don DeLillo
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When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
— Haruki Murakami
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— Haruki Murakami
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
— Abraham Lincoln
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— Abraham Lincoln
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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
-- Jim Rohn.
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-- Jim Rohn.
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Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
- Neil Degrasse Tyson
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- Neil Degrasse Tyson
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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
- Frederic Chopin
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- Frederic Chopin
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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- Lao Tzu
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- General Colin Powell
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- General Colin Powell
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“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
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- Hans Hofmann
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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
- Winston Churchill
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- Winston Churchill
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
- Charles Mingus
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- Charles Mingus
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Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength.
- Vince Lombardi
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- Vince Lombardi
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
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— Henry David Thoreau
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Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
— Mr. Rogers
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— Mr. Rogers
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