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Quotes

“Three Apples changed the world. The first one seduced Eve. The second one awakened Newton. The third one was in the hands of Steve Jobs” – Unknown

Steve Jobs’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech (it is too long to quote) – Steve Jobs

“Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind” – Douglas MacArthur

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” – Mark Twain

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” – Albert Eintstein

“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it” – Oscar Wilde

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough” – Mae West

“Many of the adventures you go on will not make sense to other people because the outcome is unknown. But journeys where the outcome is already known are not adventures, they’re errands. And you were created to do more than run errands.” – Jon Acuff

“iPod, iPhone, iPad, iGenius: iJobs. “i” is pronounced /ai/, or the chinese word “爱”, meaning love” – Unknown

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” – Thomas A. Edison

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring” – Marilyn Monroe

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why” – Bernard M. Baruch

“He who laughs last, laughs best” – Common Idiom

“Life is a journey, not a destination” – Ralph W. Emerson

“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy” – Unknown

“People don’t want to know that you’re telling the truth, they want to know that you believe it is the truth” – A Friend

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do” – Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997

“All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it” – Samuel Butler

“When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money” – Cree Prophecy

“Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children” – Kenyan Proverb

“Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do” – R.G. Collingwood

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness” – Carl Jung

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” – Albert Einstein

“Love your enemies: It makes them so damn mad.” – P.D. East

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it” – Albert Einstein