Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Augustine of Hippo

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Create with the heart; build with the mind.

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are headed.

Nothing is forever except change.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Fernando Pessoa

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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