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When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#philosophy #criticism

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#nothing #evolution

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King! ↗

— Alan Moore

#gunpowder #king #november #treason #english

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism." (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini) ↗

— Winston Churchill

#fascism #history #italy #lenin #politics

Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#red-queen #the-red-queen #england

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gamgee #hobbit #samwise #tolkien #job

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#ileadership #jobs #mac #macintosh #steve

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#hard #simple #thinking #truth #wisdom

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. (Steve Jobs) ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#think-different #job

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#book-lover #books #library