"Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want."

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"There is no depth of life without a way to depth, no truth without a way to truth."

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

Literature1900–2003

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"The egg of a parasite chalcid wasp, a common small wasp, multiplies unassisted, making ever more identical eggs. The female lays a single fertilized egg in the flaccid tissues of its live prey, and th…"

— Annie Dillard

Literature1945–2026

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"Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb."

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Art1811–1863

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"The great error of traditional proofs of the existence of god is that they try to take a symbolic truth for a literal truth, a truth of fact, and then try to prove that it is a fact."

— Walter Terence Stace

Philosophy1886–1967

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