The sea's unceasing motion is not restlessness but fidelity — it returns always to the same shores, wearing them away not by violence but by the patient insistence of its nature.

Loren Eiseley — The Immense Journey

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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. And when at last we stand upon the summit, we discover that the view we sought was not the landscape below, but the expanded vision within.

William Hazlitt — On the Pleasure of Hating

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Three mornings a week, Zuckerberg trains MMA so someone will still hit him hard enough to tell him the truth. And most interestingly, after every death pronouncement — mobile, Snapchat, politics, TikTok, the Metaverse, Llama 4 — he has somehow emerged larger.

Polina Pompliano

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