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		nindalf on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quotes I keep a list of quotes that I read from time to time * When the winds of change blow, some people build walls while others build windmills. — Chinese proverb * There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway * If you love life, then don't waste time, for time is what life is made of. - Bruce Lee * If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it - Cicero. * Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - Yeats * Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - Yeats

inimino on May 13, 2017 | [–]

The last one, worded slightly differently, is more correctly attributable to Plutarch.

AnimalMuppet on May 11, 2017 | [–]

Ben Franklin said it a while before Bruce Lee did...

camikazeg on May 11, 2017 | [–]

* If you love life, then don't waste time, for time is what life is made of. - nindalf

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