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Hi, I'm Dayyan.

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Aspiring to world class is not enough, when everyone else starts there.

Jeff McAffer

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When the love of God is established, everything else will be realized. This is the true foundation of all economics.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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In great art, the spectator does feel a corresponding thrill in himself. Such harmony or even contrast of emotion cannot be superficial or worthless; indeed, the Stimmung of a picture can deepen and purify that of the spectator. Such works of art at least preserve the soul from coarseness; they "key it up," so to speak, to a certain height, as a tuning-key the strings of a musical instrument.

Wassily Kandinsky

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The S in IoT stands for security.

attributed to Tim Kadlec

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Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Cedric Price

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I go down to the shore

by Mary Oliver

I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.

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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.

Doctor Who

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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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... the most important part of learning is actually forgetting.

Naftali Tishby

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We who toil now are paving the way for a far better world, and this knowledge must uphold and strengthen us through every trial.

Shoghi Effendi

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Finally I am becoming stupider no more

the epitaph Paul Erdős wrote for himself

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The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls; so it is to this we must look—to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.

Shoghi Effendi

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient!, but also with our own poor selves, remembering that even the Prophets of God sometimes got tired and cried out in despair!

Shoghi Effendi

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...

Charles Dickens

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Turn all your thoughts toward bringing joy to hearts.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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“Are you ready?” she asked.

“Of course! I’ve been preparing for this my whole life,” he said.

And then he died.