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For me it was these.

"A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius"

"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter"

These two quotes really helped get my @** in gear.

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[โ€“] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"

-Stephen Jay Gould

[โ€“] TVgog56789@lemy.lol -2 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Yeah just imagine if Isaac Newton was born as a sl***e rather than a rich estate owner. We would still be stuck in the dark ages.

[โ€“] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Were you spelling slave and misspelled it or am I missing something?

Newton was a total slute don't let the virgin propagandists win.

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