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1625 Essayist Quotes

The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.

Future Arrived Evenly distributed
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It’s only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Technology Morally Good Evil
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye

Language Mind Light Eye
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A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response

Books Author's Reader's Response
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
We See Order Move
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Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting

Time Moves Menory Natural
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You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.

You Know Going Where
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work

You Learn Overcome Work
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I think I’d probably tell you that it’s easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

Desire Love Loyalty People
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We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self

We Money Growing Universe
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it’s not.

Ignorance Exist World People
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A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil.

Business Make Necessary Evil
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Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward

Stability End Walk Fall foward
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You’ll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.

Learn Teach Remember Forget
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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come

Stand high Enough Lightning Come
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Future Looking Sense Fiction
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Time is money, but also money is money.

Time Money
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Net Waste Time Right
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

He True friends Afraid Enemies
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Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

Love Disgust Hatred Immortal
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
Art Life Enjoy Endure
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Art Conversation Hearing
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Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Words Last forever Durable Eternal
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

Silent People Think Most highly
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Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

Sacrivices When Repaid Fold
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Men Genius Excel Labor
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We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves

Hate Friends Books Opinions
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Rules and models destroy genius and art

Rules Destroy Genuis Art
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Familiarity Breed Contempt Admiration
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry Worth Life
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning Own Great Reward
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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Knowledge Wisdom Heart Feel
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Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...

Business Education Learning Mind
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The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

Best Conversation Called Thinking
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Only Impeccable Writers Never
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Friendship Love Heart Mind
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

World Nothing Convinced Errors
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
War Others Peace Themselves
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Truly Great Person Thought
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why,

Smart Observe One Why
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice Child Ignorance
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Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Greatest Purpose Mind Open
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves

We Disposed Quarrel Ourselves
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Vice Forgiven Hypocrisy Repentance
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Books Souls Secrets Our own
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Man Laughs Weeps Animal
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

World Loves Forgive Honest truth
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits.

Laugh Person Health Beauty
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Love Liberty Power Ourselves
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Nature Eyes Understanding Hearts
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