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Great Minds Welcome

"Great minds discuss ideas; 

Average minds discuss events; 

Small minds discuss people." 

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Life Lessons from Socrates

Dumb Little Man [via] offers up a smattering of obvious-but-always-worth-remembering life lessons from history's favorite philosophical forefather, Socrates.  Among my favorites (which are also those I post here to remember personally):
  1. "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
  2. "Think not those faithful who praise all they words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
  3. "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
  4. "To do is to be."
  5. "Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Bill & Ted's "Be Excellent to Each Other" doesn't seem to have made the official cannon; but is a good one to flag nonetheless.

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Think Big, Feel Small

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“Look again at that dot.  That’s here.  That’s home.  That’s us.  On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.  The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader’, ever saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

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