So you´ve finally found your way to my little tumblog... you may at some time in the future find all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff to keep you entertained for hours on end. At the time being though you will probably find very little except for a few dusty old Weapons of Messy Distraction lying around the place...
“Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.”

Thomas Hobbes
English political philosopher (1588 - 1679)

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Inspirational Quotes #36

“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”

Marquis de Vauvenargues
(17151747  French moralist and essayist)

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Inspirational Quotes #35

“There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.”

Sydney Smith
English essayist (1771 - 1845)

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Inspirational Quotes #34

“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”
William Penn
English religious leader and colonist (1644 - 1718)

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Inspirational Quotes #33

“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”
Aesop
        Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)

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Inspirational Quotes #32

“Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing”
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2

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Inspirational Quotes #31

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

George Bernard Shaw

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Inspirational Quotes #30

“Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.”
Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)

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Inspirational Quotes #29

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”

Eric Hoffer

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Inspirational Quotes #28

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed”
Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

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Inspirational Quotes #27