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“Hope is a renewable option. If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”

- Barbara Kingsolver

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Read good fiction…

…thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

- George Bernard Shaw

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“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”

- Eva Young

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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– Buckminster Fuller

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Here's a weird fact:

The last day that all of us were on Earth together was October 31, 2000. At least one person has been aboard the International Space Station ever since.

I'm not sure what it means but it feels significant. That is all. Thank you.

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“Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.”

- An Old Irish Proverb

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“Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.”

- David Ogilvy

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There’s always a twinkling magic about ice covered trees.

Only happens about once a year in central Texas.

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“The teleological fallacy is the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going.”

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile, p. 170

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“One minute gotcha holdin' an ace. The next minute gotcha fall on your face. A mean city is a nasty place. Only a rat can win a rat race.”

- Michael Franti, from his song Sometimes

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“We are not the sum of our intentions but of our actions.“

- Brendon Burchard

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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!'”

- Hunter S. Thompson

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When you’re walking around Wizard Academy and the sun hits your face just right…

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“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”

- Tom Robbins

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“I love those who can smile in trouble…”

- Leonardo da Vinci

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Just the Texas sky being all dramatic. Don’t pay it any attention; that’s just what it wants.

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“You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”

- Les Brown

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“Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.” 

– Bernie Siegel