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Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#creativity #effectiveness #flame #improve #interest

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#abolish #absolute #been #condition #death

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#thinking #wisedom #time

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#appearance #because #business #disappointed #financial

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#business #faith #family #i #i believe

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dreams

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark"). ↗

— Miranda July

#love #love

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#friends #friendship #life #loneliness #friendship

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friendship #greatness #loyalty #friendship

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#sadness #funny