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The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.
– Naval RavikantQuotes
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Como escribir una buena entrada de blog / Qué es lo que define que queramos leer una entrada o post. Internet (es)
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Zero to one by Peter Thiel / Highlights from Peter Thiel’s business book. Books
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My Early Life: The Autobiography by Winston Churchill / Notes on Churchill’s first part of his autobiography. Books
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian / Notes on David Christian’s book on the origin of the universe. Books
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Energy: A Beginner’s Guide by Vaclav Smil / Notes on Vaclac Smil’s introductory book on energy. Books
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Familiar quotations by John Bartlett / Some of the quotes and aphorisms from Familiar quotations. Books
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Big Data Now: 2012 Edition / Notes on Bigdata. Books
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature / Highlights on how ro be inspired by nature through biomimicry. Books
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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life / Highlights on Gretchen Rubin’s biography of Winston Churchill. Books
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Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence … Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. – Stephen HawkingQuotes
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On the Shortness of Life by Seneca the Younger / Highlights of Seneca’s book on living a good life. Books
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Book notes: Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky / Highlights from the book on rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Books
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki / Highlights on Robert T. Kiyosaki’s book. Books
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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford / Highlights from Sir Walter Scott’s Journal. Books
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought / Highlights from the book on two great scottish thinkers by Dennis C. Rasmussen. Books
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American boys’ life of Theodore Roosevelt / Highlights on a short biopgraphy of Teddy Roosevelt by Edward Stratemeyer & Charles Copeland Books
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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason / Highlights from the book by George S. Clason on how to grow rich. Books
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Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin / Highlights from Benjamin Franklin’s compendium of aphorisms. Books
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13 Virtues of Benjamin Franklin / In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character. Inspiration
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The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.
– William GibsonQuotes
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Education isn’t something you can finish.
– Isaac AsimovQuotes
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Earth is the cradle of humanity & you can’t stay in the cradle forever. – Elon MuskQuotes
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The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril. – Niall FergusonQuotes
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I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which have happened.
– Mark TwainQuotes
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Como grabar un podcast / Una breve guía sobre como grabar, publicar y distrubuir un podcast utilizando unicamente un telefono móvil. Internet (es)
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I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived – and dying I will tend to later.
– EpictetusQuotes
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. For this reason, make life as a whole agreeable to yourself by banishing all worry about it.
– SenecaQuotes
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Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.
– Andy BenoitQuotes
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You could easily spot any Religion of Peace. Its extremist members would be extremely peaceful.
– Ricky GervaisQuotes
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What society runs on is not reality. What society runs on is expectations of future reality.
– Aubrey de Grey Quotes
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Mental Models / A compendium of more than 250 mental models. Projects
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Douglas Adams’ Rules of Technology / Douglas Adams came up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies. Life
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Famous people in History / How far in time are we from famous people in history? History
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CO2 Footprint / My CO2 footprint seems to be 8,95tn/year. Climate Change
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A powerful algorithm for happiness is to be wealthy but anonymous.
– Scott GallowayQuotes
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren KierkegaardQuotes
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The Summer Day / What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Inspiration
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
– Ralph Waldo EmersonQuotes
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Christmas / Since 2014, Mar and I make a Christmas’ card to send to family and friends. About Projects
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CV / My CV, currently only in spanish. About
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Places / A list of places I have visited. Projects
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Newsletters / A list of my favourite newsletters. Resources
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Online tools / A list of my favourite online tools. Resources
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Restaurants / A list of my favourite restaurants. Resources
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Podcasts / A list of my favourite podcasts. Resources
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Documentaries / A list of my favourite documentaries. Resources
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Films / A list of my favourite films. Resources
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Series / A list of my favourite of tv series. Resources
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My life in months / A diagram with the most important events from my life. Projects
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Principles and Beliefs / A set of principles, rules and beliefs that inform my decisions. About
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
– Stephen HawkingIntelligence Quotes
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There is no cloud – It’s just someone else’s computer.Quotes
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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
– Stephen HawkingQuotes
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Happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles. — Naval RavikantQuotes
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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. – Winston ChurchillQuotes
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Your entire life runs on the software—the models—in your head. Why wouldn’t you obsess over optimizing it? — Tim UrbanQuotes
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Relax, no one else knows what they’re doing either. – Ricky GervaisQuotes
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You get further in life by avoiding repeated stupidity than you do by striving for maximum intelligence. — Charlie MungerQuotes
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Tboti – The best of the internet / Articles and posts that everyone should read. Resources
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Blogs / A list of my favourite blogs. Resources
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Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace. ― Randy ArmstronQuotes
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. – SenecaQuotes
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The Parable of the Fisherman / An eye-opening story on how to live life. Inspiration
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Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees; The further sky, the greater length; The more the storm, the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow, In trees and men good timbers grow. – Douglas MallochQuotes
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Serenity Prayer / […] grace to accept with serenity, the things that cannot be changed… Inspiration
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Browser extensions / A list of my favourite browser (Chrome) extensions. Resources
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We’re up against ecological limits, not monetary shortages; we are constrained by a carbon budget not a federal one, and we need to remake our economy to reflect this reality. – Astra TaylorQuotes
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It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. – Chuck PalahniukQuotes
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Viktor E. FranklQuotes
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Shortness of Life / It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Philosophy
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How much is a tree worth? / It turns out putting a vlue on tree is more difficult than expected. Climate Change Money
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The story of Ubuntu / Do you know what «Ubuntu» actually means? Internet (en)
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Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. – Steve JobsQuotes
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor RooseveltQuotes
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Equality of opportunity provides in a sense that all start the race of life at the same time. Equality of outcome attempts to ensure that everyone finishes at the same time. – LJM CoorayQuotes
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No code has fewer bugs than no code.
– Kevlin HenneyQuotes
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The blind and the elephant / This parable has been used to illustrate the inability of man to know the totality of reality. Philosophy
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Living in the present / We can only truly live in the present. Philosophy
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El problema con el mundo actual es que todo el mundo cree que tiene derecho a expresar sus opiniones y que los demás tenemos que escucharlo.[…]todos tenemos derecho a tener nuestra opinión, pero esa opinión puede ser ignorada e incluso ridiculizada, especialmente si es demostrablemente una tontería.
– Brian CoxFrases
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When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
– Dr. Theodore WoodwardQuotes
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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.Quotes
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Nassim Taleb on being black swans / On the odds on being born and being grateful. Inspiration
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Conflicts / Siempre ha habido y habrá conflictos. History
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Unnaturality of Anger / We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes… Inspiration
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’ – Hunter S. ThompsonQuotes
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
– Albert EinsteinQuotes
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and a few to be chewed and digested.
– Francis BaconQuotes
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Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham BellQuotes
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Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel PaigeQuotes
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A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. – Winston ChurchillQuotes
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The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent. – EisenhowerQuotes
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Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible. – Alan TuringQuotes
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If you want to make a living flower, you don’t build it physically cell by cell. – Christopher AlexanderQuotes
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Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. – Jim RohnQuotes
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The world we choose to build is the one we’ll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control, we’re going to have to fight for it. ― Edward SnowdenQuotes
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Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. – AristotleQuotes
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St. Crispin’s day Speech / We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; Inspiration
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity…The grave will supply plenty of time for silence. – Christopher HitchensQuotes
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Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal / Vague but exciting… Internet (en)
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Youth is wasted on the young. – George Bernard ShawQuotes
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We should do away with the notion that everybody has to earn a living.Quotes
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The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life. – Buckminster FullerQuotes
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. – Buckminster FullerQuotes
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Buckminster FullerQuotes
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. – Albert EinsteinQuotes
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Wabi sabi / Wabi sabi is a Japanese design concept. Inspiration
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The man in the arena / It is not the critic who counts… Inspiration
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The lucky ones / We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Inspiration
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All things in moderation, including moderation. – Oscar Wilde (?)Quotes
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This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. – Winston ChurchillQuotes
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The tale of two wolves / A Cherokee legend about life. Inspiration
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Purpose of life / The purpose of life is right in front of us: It’s to create a reality we want to inhabit . Inspiration
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Llama la atención que hasta ahora hemos utilizado principalmente nuestra mayor productividad para consumir más cosas en lugar de disfrutar de más tiempo libre. El desempleo se debe en parte a la falta de ingresos (fundamentalmente un problema de distribución), pero también se trata de una falta de autoestima y estatus social. – Nick BostromQuotes
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Lo único que tiene valor es vivir una vida de forma sincera y correcta. Y sé paciente con aquellos que no lo hacen. – Marco AurelioQuotes
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The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. – William GibsonQuotes
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others. – Otto von BismarckQuotes
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. – Isaac NewtonQuotes
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El fracaso es simplemente la oportunidad de empezar de nuevo, esta vez de forma más inteligente. – Henry FordQuotes
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan KayQuotes
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Nadie se ha convertido en pobre por dar a los demás. – Anne FrankQuotes
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Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
– Dalai LamaQuotes
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I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. – Woodrow WilsonQuotes
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. – Sir Arthur Conan DoyleQuotes
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The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use. – George A. DorseyQuotes
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. – D.H. LawrenceQuotes
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Invictus / Inspiring words from William Ernest Henley. Inspiration
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. – D.H. LawrenceQuotes
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If / How to become a man, by Rudyard Kipling. Inspiration
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Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. – Primo LeviQuotes
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Any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke / Larry Niven *Quotes
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To make much of time / Gather ye rosebuds while ye may… Inspiration
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference. – Kurt VonnegutQuotes
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Human History / Human history rarely changes. History
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El peor enemigo del conocimiento no es la ignorancia, es la ilusión de conocimiento. – Stephen HawkingQuotes
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. – Isaac AsimovQuotes
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La primera regla de cualquier tecnología utilizada en una empresa es que la automatización aplicada a una operación eficiente aumentará la eficiencia. La segunda es que la automatización aplicada a una operación ineficiente aumentará la ineficiencia. – Bill GatesQuotes
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Sólo un necio confunde valor con precio. – Antonio MachadoQuotes
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¿Por qué debería temer a la muerte? Si yo soy, la muerte no es. Si la muerte es, yo no lo soy. ¿Por qué debería temer aquello que solo existe cuando no lo hago yo? – EpicurioQuotes
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Cuando dices SI a otros, asegúrate que no te dices NO a ti mismo. – Paulo CoelhoQuotes
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El universo tuvo un día sin un ayer. – Georges LemaitreQuotes
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To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. – Thomas PaineQuotes
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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; Who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; Who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction. – Bessie Anderson StanleyQuotes
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin TofflerQuotes
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We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing…an actor, a writer…I am a person who does things…I write, I act…and I never know what I’m going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun. – Stephen FryQuotes
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor FranklQuotes
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
– Adam SmithMoney Quotes
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To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. – Ella Wheeler WilcoxQuotes
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If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen. – Kenneth BouldingQuotes
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Walden – Henry ThoreauQuotes
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Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. – Patti SmithQuotes
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How to fall asleep in 2 minutes / Learning to fall asleep quickly is a useful skill. Resources
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How to tie your shoes / A short video on how to tie your shoes Resources
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Kwangmyong / In North Korea there is no internet access as we know it in the rest of the world, there is Kwangmyong. Internet (en)
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What Is Intelligence, Anyway? / A short story by Isaac Asimov. Intelligence