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The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest). ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #nature

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#difficulties #disappear #effect #magical #obstacles

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#others #ourselves #see #spot #us

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. ↗

— Aeschylus

#anvil #does #fate #firm #forging

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#comes #people #success #take #take advantage

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#being #better #capability #great #great advantage

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#baby #diploma #going #graduated #had

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#become #buildings #get #more #our

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#advance #after #below #critical #critical mass

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#activities #always #focus #going #had