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“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.” James Joyce, Ulysses

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.” Frank Herbert, Dune

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“If you don’t believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

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