#General Wisdoms
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"A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so."
— Christopher Hitchens
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"One melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can’t make old friends."
— Christopher Hitchens
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"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
— William James
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
— Abraham Lincoln
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"The meaning of life in the human sphere is easy to answer: to create satisfaction for ourselves and for other people. In the extra-human sphere the question has no meaning."
— Albert Einstein
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"You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."
— John Maxwell
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"Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. "
— Mahatma Gandhi
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
— Albert Einstein
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"Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new."
— Nir Eyal