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 **Some quotes I like.**
+‘It’s just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because he is dumb to his dull perceptions.’ —MARK TWAIN\\
+If I were to add a custom command phrase:\\
+"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said..."\\
+Alexa: "...let there be light"\\
+*Blinds go up\\
+  * [[Collected Author Quotes]]
 [[Making Mistakes]] Long paragraph about "If You’re Not Making Mistakes, then You’re Not Doing Anything."
+Elon Musk had a more recent quote that if you're not having failures then you are not pushing the innovation envelope enough.  This was in reference to SpaceX blowing up rockets in the early days.
 "Even the biggest failure beats the hell out of never trying"
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   * "Look for the beauty in everything and everyone"
   * "Don't waste time being perfect."
+----
+Chinese Fortune Cookie\\
+As one grows to understand life less and less, one learns to live it more and more.\\
+----
+==== Doing rather than reward ====
+"AWOL on the Appalachian Trail" by David Miller -\\
+"“it is the task, not the employer, that is served” and that “the doing matters more than the attainment or reward.
+----
+==== Believe in your skillset ====
+From the YouTube channel "Ambition Strikes"\\
+There are people who are less qualified than you,\\
+doing the things you want to do,\\
+simply because they decided to believe in themselves.
+----
+==== No One is Naturally Talented ====
+From the YouTube channel "vccground"\\
+If you want something you never had\\
+You will have to do something you've never done\\
+No one is naturally talented, they worked hard for it.\\
+----
+==== The Ant and the Grasshopper ====
+In the
+summer, the ants worked and saved,
+while the grasshoppers played. The
+ants warned that come winter, there
+would be no food. The grasshoppers
+laughed at their labors and sacrifices.\\
+As winter approached and food
+disappeared, the grasshoppers
+pleaded. \\
+The ants said that you must
+reap what you sow. But then, on the
+first Tuesday in November, the grasshoppers were given the chance to
+take the ants’ food.\\