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    { "id": 1, "text": "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.", "author": "Edsger Dijkstra", "source": "EWD498 (1975)", "themes": ["simplicity", "programming", "debugging"] },
    { "id": 2, "text": "The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.", "author": "Brian Kernighan", "source": "The Practice of Programming (1999)", "themes": ["debugging", "programming", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 4, "text": "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.", "author": "Martin Fowler", "source": "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (1999)", "themes": ["programming", "simplicity", "communication"] },
    { "id": 6, "text": "Talk is cheap. Show me the code.", "author": "Linus Torvalds", "source": "Linux Kernel Mailing List (2000)", "themes": ["programming", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 8, "text": "The best error message is the one that never shows up.", "author": "Thomas Fuchs", "source": "\"How to Write a Great Error Message,\" Thomas Fuchs (2019)", "themes": ["debugging", "programming"] },
    { "id": 13, "text": "The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.", "author": "Brian Herbert", "source": "Dune: House Harkonnen (2003)", "themes": ["learning", "growth", "motivation"] },
    { "id": 20, "text": "Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.", "author": "Joyce Meyer", "source": "Battlefield of the Mind (1995)", "themes": ["patience", "growth"] },
    { "id": 26, "text": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do.", "author": "Steve Jobs", "source": "Stanford Commencement Address (2005)", "themes": ["motivation", "career", "success"] },
    { "id": 29, "text": "The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "source": "The Evolution of Physics (1938)", "themes": ["problem-solving", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 50, "text": "Nature is pleased with simplicity.", "author": "Isaac Newton", "source": "Principia Mathematica, Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Rule I (1687)", "themes": ["simplicity"] },
    { "id": 52, "text": "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.", "author": "Hans Hofmann", "source": "As quoted in Zen and the Art of Stand-up Comedy (1998)", "themes": ["simplicity", "communication"] },
    { "id": 55, "text": "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "source": "The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900)", "themes": ["failure", "courage"] },
    { "id": 56, "text": "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.", "author": "Robert F. Kennedy", "source": "Day of Affirmation Address, University of Cape Town (1966)", "themes": ["failure", "courage", "success"] },
    { "id": 59, "text": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "author": "William Penn", "source": "Fruits of Solitude (1682)", "themes": ["time", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 62, "text": "Do not wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "source": "Think and Grow Rich (1938)", "themes": ["time", "motivation", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 64, "text": "Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Edward Young", "source": "Night-Thoughts, Night I (1742)", "themes": ["productivity", "time"] },
    { "id": 66, "text": "The unexamined life is not worth living.", "author": "Socrates", "source": "Plato, Apology, 38a", "themes": ["wisdom", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 67, "text": "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "source": "Twilight of the Idols, \"Maxims and Arrows\" §12 (1889)", "themes": ["philosophy", "motivation", "persistence"] },
    { "id": 73, "text": "Feel the fear and do it anyway.", "author": "Susan Jeffers", "source": "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (1987)", "themes": ["fear", "courage", "motivation"] },
    { "id": 75, "text": "Fear is the mind-killer.", "author": "Frank Herbert", "source": "Dune (1965)", "themes": ["fear"] },
    { "id": 77, "text": "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.", "author": "Beverly Sills", "source": "As quoted in Conquering an Enemy Called Average (1996)", "themes": ["persistence", "patience"] },
    { "id": 84, "text": "Brevity is the soul of wit.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "source": "Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2", "themes": ["communication", "simplicity", "writing"] },
    { "id": 94, "text": "You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.", "author": "Ken Thompson", "source": "Reflections on Trusting Trust, Communications of the ACM 27:8 (1984)", "themes": ["programming"] },
    { "id": 95, "text": "Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment.", "author": "Kent Beck", "source": "Extreme Programming Explained (2000)", "themes": ["programming"] },
    { "id": 96, "text": "Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.", "author": "Bjarne Stroustrup", "source": "The C++ Programming Language, 4th ed. (2013)", "themes": ["programming"] },
    { "id": 97, "text": "But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.", "author": "Niklaus Wirth", "source": "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, Communications of the ACM 14:4 (1971)", "themes": ["programming"] },
    { "id": 98, "text": "If the software doesn't have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.", "author": "Gerald Weinberg", "source": "Quality Software Management: Volume 2 (1993)", "themes": ["programming", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 99, "text": "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.", "author": "Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman", "source": "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Preface to the First Edition (1985)", "themes": ["programming"] },
    { "id": 100, "text": "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!", "author": "Edsger Dijkstra", "source": "Notes on Structured Programming, EWD249 (1970)", "themes": ["debugging"] },
    { "id": 101, "text": "The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code, but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.", "author": "C.A.R. Hoare", "source": "How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996)", "themes": ["debugging"] },
    { "id": 102, "text": "I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.", "author": "Maurice Wilkes", "source": "Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer (1985)", "themes": ["debugging"] },
    { "id": 103, "text": "Legacy code is code without tests.", "author": "Michael Feathers", "source": "Working Effectively with Legacy Code (2004)", "themes": ["debugging", "architecture"] },
    { "id": 104, "text": "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", "author": "Donald Knuth", "source": "Notes on the Van Emde Boas Construction of Priority Deques (1977)", "themes": ["debugging"] },
    { "id": 105, "text": "No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.", "author": "Ken Thompson", "source": "Reflections on Trusting Trust, Communications of the ACM 27:8 (1984)", "themes": ["debugging"] },
    { "id": 106, "text": "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'", "author": "Charles Babbage", "source": "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)", "themes": ["debugging"] },
    { "id": 107, "text": "The second system is the most dangerous system a man ever designs.", "author": "Fred Brooks", "source": "The Mythical Man-Month, p. 55 (1975)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 108, "text": "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.", "author": "Leslie Lamport", "source": "Email, 28 May 1987", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 109, "text": "Programs, like people, get old.", "author": "David Parnas", "source": "Software Aging (1994)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 110, "text": "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.", "author": "Melvin Conway", "source": "How Do Committees Invent?, Datamation (1968)", "themes": ["architecture", "communication"] },
    { "id": 111, "text": "Shipping first time code is like going into debt.", "author": "Ward Cunningham", "source": "The WyCash Portfolio Management System, OOPSLA Experience Report (1992)", "themes": ["architecture", "complexity"] },
    { "id": 112, "text": "The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid.", "author": "Ward Cunningham", "source": "The WyCash Portfolio Management System, OOPSLA Experience Report (1992)", "themes": ["architecture", "complexity"] },
    { "id": 113, "text": "Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident.", "author": "Rob Pike", "source": "Notes on Programming in C (1989)", "themes": ["architecture", "algorithms"] },
    { "id": 114, "text": "All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change.", "author": "Grady Booch", "source": "On Design (2006)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 115, "text": "Models are not right or wrong; they are more or less useful.", "author": "Martin Fowler", "source": "Analysis Patterns, p. 2 (1997)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 116, "text": "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.", "author": "Douglas McIlroy", "source": "Unix Time-Sharing System: Foreword, Bell System Technical Journal (1978)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 117, "text": "The device must explain itself.", "author": "Don Norman", "source": "The Design of Everyday Things, Introduction (1988)", "themes": ["architecture", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 118, "text": "Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs.", "author": "John Backus", "source": "Can Programming Be Liberated from the Von Neumann Style?, Communications of the ACM (1978)", "themes": ["architecture", "programming"] },
    { "id": 119, "text": "When systems are constructed from many components, the organization of the overall system—the software architecture—presents a new set of design problems.", "author": "Mary Shaw and David Garlan", "source": "An Introduction to Software Architecture (1993)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 120, "text": "Software architecture involves the description of elements from which systems are built, interactions among those elements, patterns that guide their composition, and constraints on these patterns.", "author": "Mary Shaw and David Garlan", "source": "Characteristics of Higher-Level Languages for Software Architecture (1994)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 121, "text": "Software architecture is foundational to the development of large, practical software-intensive applications.", "author": "Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, and Eric M. Dashofy", "source": "Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice (2009)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 122, "text": "The field was created out of necessity. Software systems were growing larger.", "author": "Rick Kazman", "source": "Software Architecture, in Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (2001)", "themes": ["architecture"] },
    { "id": 123, "text": "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.", "author": "Donald Knuth", "source": "Structured Programming with go to Statements, Computing Surveys 6:4 (1974)", "themes": ["algorithms", "complexity"] },
    { "id": 124, "text": "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.", "author": "Richard Hamming", "source": "Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Preface (1962)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 125, "text": "Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.", "author": "Alan Perlis", "source": "Epigrams in Programming, #12, SIGPLAN Notices (1982)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 126, "text": "The First Rule of Program Optimization: Don't do it. The Second Rule of Program Optimization—for experts only: Don't do it yet.", "author": "Michael A. Jackson", "source": "Principles of Program Design (1975)", "themes": ["algorithms", "complexity"] },
    { "id": 127, "text": "Fancy algorithms are buggier than simple ones, and they're much harder to implement. Use simple algorithms as well as simple data structures.", "author": "Rob Pike", "source": "Notes on Programming in C (1989)", "themes": ["algorithms", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 128, "text": "It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.", "author": "Alan Turing", "source": "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (1936)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 129, "text": "A number is computable if its decimal can be written down by a machine.", "author": "Alan Turing", "source": "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (1936)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 130, "text": "The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.", "author": "Ada Lovelace", "source": "Notes on the Analytical Engine, Note G (1843)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 131, "text": "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.", "author": "Ada Lovelace", "source": "Notes on the Analytical Engine, Note A (1843)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 132, "text": "Computer science is an empirical discipline. Each new machine that is built is an experiment.", "author": "Allen Newell and Herbert Simon", "source": "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search, Communications of the ACM (1976)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 133, "text": "Numerical analysis is very much an experimental science.", "author": "Peter Wynn", "source": "Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Series B, Numerical Analysis, Vol. 1 (1964)", "themes": ["algorithms"] },
    { "id": 134, "text": "The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.", "author": "Fred Brooks", "source": "No Silver Bullet, p. 183 (1986)", "themes": ["complexity"] },
    { "id": 135, "text": "There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.", "author": "C.A.R. Hoare", "source": "The Emperor's Old Clothes, 1980 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM (1981)", "themes": ["complexity", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 136, "text": "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.", "author": "Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger", "source": "Software Tools (1976)", "themes": ["complexity", "programming"] },
    { "id": 137, "text": "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.", "author": "Niklaus Wirth", "source": "A Plea for Lean Software, IEEE Computer (1995)", "themes": ["complexity"] },
    { "id": 138, "text": "Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.", "author": "Alan Perlis", "source": "Epigrams in Programming, #58, SIGPLAN Notices (1982)", "themes": ["complexity"] },
    { "id": 139, "text": "Programming languages have been steadily progressing toward obesity; the study of languages has lost much of its excitement.", "author": "John Backus", "source": "Can Programming Be Liberated from the Von Neumann Style?, Communications of the ACM (1978)", "themes": ["complexity"] },
    { "id": 140, "text": "Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly.", "author": "Don Norman", "source": "The Design of Everyday Things, Ch. 6, p. 173 (1988)", "themes": ["complexity"] },
    { "id": 141, "text": "Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.", "author": "Martin Fowler", "source": "UML Distilled, p. 32 (2004)", "themes": ["complexity"] },
    { "id": 142, "text": "If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.", "author": "Bjarne Stroustrup", "source": "The C++ Programming Language, 4th ed., p. 693 (2013)", "themes": ["complexity", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 143, "text": "Computer programs are the most intricate, delicately balanced and finely interwoven of all the products of human industry to date.", "author": "James Gleick", "source": "What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier, p. 19 (2002)", "themes": ["complexity", "architecture"] },
    { "id": 144, "text": "Software engineering is the part of computer science which is too difficult for the computer scientist.", "author": "Friedrich L. Bauer", "source": "Information Processing 71: Proceedings of the IFIP Congress (1971)", "themes": ["complexity"] },
    { "id": 145, "text": "Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.", "author": "Edsger Dijkstra", "source": "On the Nature of Computing Science, EWD896 (1984)", "themes": ["simplicity", "complexity"] },
    { "id": 146, "text": "When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.", "author": "Kent Beck", "source": "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, p. 88 (1999)", "themes": ["simplicity", "programming"] },
    { "id": 147, "text": "Write programs that do one thing and do it well.", "author": "Douglas McIlroy", "source": "Unix Time-Sharing System: Foreword, Bell System Technical Journal (1978)", "themes": ["simplicity"] },
    { "id": 148, "text": "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.", "author": "Aristotle", "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, Book II", "themes": ["learning", "growth"] },
    { "id": 149, "text": "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "source": "Essays, 'Of Studies' (1625)", "themes": ["learning", "writing"] },
    { "id": 150, "text": "The great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.", "author": "William James", "source": "Talks to Teachers on Psychology (1899)", "themes": ["learning", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 151, "text": "Everything changes, nothing perishes.", "author": "Ovid", "source": "Metamorphoses, Book XV", "themes": ["growth", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 152, "text": "There is grandeur in this view of life... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "source": "On the Origin of Species (1859)", "themes": ["growth", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 153, "text": "Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.", "author": "Michael Faraday", "source": "Faraday's Diary, entry 10,040 (19 March 1849)", "themes": ["curiosity", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 154, "text": "Here I stand, atoms with consciousness, matter with curiosity.", "author": "Richard Feynman", "source": "The Value of Science (1955)", "themes": ["curiosity"] },
    { "id": 155, "text": "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.", "author": "Richard Feynman", "source": "The Meaning of It All (1963 lectures; pub. 1998)", "themes": ["curiosity", "learning"] },
    { "id": 156, "text": "On the favourable side of the balance, I think that I am superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "source": "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (written 1876; pub. 1887)", "themes": ["curiosity", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 157, "text": "There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "source": "Essays, Book III, Ch. 13, 'Of Experience' (1588)", "themes": ["curiosity"] },
    { "id": 158, "text": "A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.", "author": "Rachel Carson", "source": "The Sense of Wonder (1965)", "themes": ["curiosity", "growth"] },
    { "id": 159, "text": "The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea, and sky and their amazing life.", "author": "Rachel Carson", "source": "The Sense of Wonder (1965)", "themes": ["curiosity", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 160, "text": "If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.", "author": "Marie Curie", "source": "Autobiographical Notes (1923)", "themes": ["curiosity", "excitement"] },
    { "id": 161, "text": "They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.", "author": "Carl Sagan", "source": "Cosmos, Ch. 25, 'The Amniotic Universe' (1980)", "themes": ["curiosity", "growth"] },
    { "id": 162, "text": "All men by nature desire to know.", "author": "Aristotle", "source": "Metaphysics, Book I", "themes": ["curiosity", "learning"] },
    { "id": 163, "text": "Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.", "author": "Socrates", "source": "Plato, Theaetetus, 155d", "themes": ["curiosity"] },
    { "id": 164, "text": "The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.", "author": "Thomas Henry Huxley", "source": "'Biogenesis and Abiogenesis' (1870)", "themes": ["curiosity", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 165, "text": "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.", "author": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "source": "Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Four (1903)", "themes": ["curiosity", "patience"] },
    { "id": 166, "text": "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "source": "Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself,' section 31 (1855)", "themes": ["curiosity", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 167, "text": "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.", "author": "Jacques Cousteau", "source": "The Silent World (1953)", "themes": ["curiosity", "excitement"] },
    { "id": 169, "text": "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.", "author": "William James", "source": "The Principles of Psychology (1890)", "themes": ["wisdom", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 170, "text": "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "source": "Walden, 'Conclusion' (1854)", "themes": ["wisdom", "courage"] },
    { "id": 171, "text": "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.", "author": "Marie Curie", "source": "Letter to her brother Jozef (1894)", "themes": ["wisdom", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 172, "text": "Re-examine all you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "source": "Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)", "themes": ["wisdom", "courage"] },
    { "id": 173, "text": "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.", "author": "John Milton", "source": "Paradise Lost, Book I (1667)", "themes": ["wisdom", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 174, "text": "Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, 1888)", "themes": ["wisdom", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 176, "text": "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "source": "Pensees (1670)", "themes": ["wisdom", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 177, "text": "The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.", "author": "Carl Sagan", "source": "Cosmos (1980)", "themes": ["philosophy", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 178, "text": "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book II", "themes": ["philosophy", "courage"] },
    { "id": 179, "text": "The greatest remedy for anger is delay.", "author": "Seneca", "source": "De Ira, Book III, Ch. 12", "themes": ["patience", "frustration"] },
    { "id": 180, "text": "Consider that everything which happens, happens justly, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book IV", "themes": ["patience"] },
    { "id": 181, "text": "If you encounter a handsome person, you will find continence the faculty needed; if pain, then fortitude; if reviling, then patience.", "author": "Epictetus", "source": "Enchiridion, Ch. 10", "themes": ["patience"] },
    { "id": 182, "text": "He that can have Patience, can have what he will.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "source": "Poor Richard's Almanack (1736)", "themes": ["patience", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 183, "text": "Leave this military hurry, and adopt the pace of Nature: her secret is patience.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "source": "'Education,' in Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883)", "themes": ["patience"] },
    { "id": 184, "text": "They also serve who only stand and wait.", "author": "John Milton", "source": "'On His Blindness' (Sonnet 19, c. 1655)", "themes": ["patience", "courage"] },
    { "id": 185, "text": "I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience—in winter expecting the sun of spring.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "source": "Walden (1854)", "themes": ["patience"] },
    { "id": 186, "text": "We lose the day in waiting for the night, and the night in fearing the dawn.", "author": "Seneca", "source": "On the Shortness of Life", "themes": ["patience", "time"] },
    { "id": 187, "text": "You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.", "author": "Jane Austen", "source": "Sense and Sensibility (1811)", "themes": ["patience", "uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 188, "text": "Angling begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.", "author": "Izaak Walton", "source": "The Compleat Angler (1653)", "themes": ["patience", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 189, "text": "Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.", "author": "Leonardo da Vinci", "source": "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Richter, 1888)", "themes": ["patience", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 190, "text": "The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery.", "author": "Richard Feynman", "source": "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity", "learning"] },
    { "id": 191, "text": "All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.", "author": "Marie Curie", "source": "Pierre Curie (1923)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 193, "text": "I am more than ever now the bride of science.", "author": "Ada Lovelace", "source": "Letter to Andrew Crosse, in Englische Studien (1894)", "themes": ["excitement", "career"] },
    { "id": 194, "text": "I feel carried away and possessed by an unutterable rapture over the divine spectacle of the heavenly harmony.", "author": "Johannes Kepler", "source": "Harmonices Mundi, Book V (1619)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 195, "text": "My chief enjoyment and sole employment throughout life has been scientific work; and the excitement from such work makes me for the time forget, or drives quite away, my daily discomfort.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "source": "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity", "career"] },
    { "id": 196, "text": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.", "author": "Henri Poincaré", "source": "Science and Method (1908)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 197, "text": "Once the emotions have been aroused—a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love—then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response.", "author": "Rachel Carson", "source": "The Sense of Wonder (1965)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity", "learning"] },
    { "id": 198, "text": "Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten—a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me.", "author": "Helen Keller", "source": "The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 4", "themes": ["excitement", "learning"] },
    { "id": 199, "text": "The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.", "author": "Charles Babbage", "source": "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), Ch. 8", "themes": ["excitement", "programming"] },
    { "id": 200, "text": "Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "source": "Sidereus Nuncius (1610)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 201, "text": "Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age.", "author": "Galileo Galilei", "source": "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)", "themes": ["excitement", "career"] },
    { "id": 202, "text": "To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before … all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.", "author": "Vladimir Nabokov", "source": "Nabokov's Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings (2000)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 203, "text": "The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.", "author": "Donald Knuth", "source": "The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. II: Seminumerical Algorithms (1969)", "themes": ["excitement", "programming"] },
    { "id": 204, "text": "The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.", "author": "Fred Brooks", "source": "The Mythical Man-Month (1975), Ch. 1", "themes": ["excitement", "programming", "creativity"] },
    { "id": 205, "text": "The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had long seemed unlike.", "author": "Jacob Bronowski", "source": "Science and Human Values (1956)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 206, "text": "The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists, was science itself.", "author": "Jacob Bronowski", "source": "The Creative Process (1958)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 207, "text": "The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "source": "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954)", "themes": ["excitement", "creativity"] },
    { "id": 208, "text": "The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "source": "Science and the Modern World (1925)", "themes": ["excitement", "curiosity"] },
    { "id": 209, "text": "Chance favors the prepared mind.", "author": "Louis Pasteur", "source": "Inaugural lecture, University of Lille (1854)", "themes": ["excitement", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 210, "text": "There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.", "author": "Seneca", "source": "Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII (c. 65 CE)", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 211, "text": "It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.", "author": "Seneca", "source": "Letters to Lucilius, Letter XXIV (c. 65 CE)", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 212, "text": "When I see someone in anxiety, I say to myself, What can it be that this fellow wants?", "author": "Epictetus", "source": "Discourses, Book II, Ch. 13 (c. 108 CE)", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 213, "text": "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.", "author": "William James", "source": "The Gospel of Relaxation (1899)", "themes": ["anxiety", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 214, "text": "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book VII", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 215, "text": "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "source": "Essays, Book III, Ch. 13, 'Of Experience' (1588)", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 216, "text": "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.", "author": "Søren Kierkegaard", "source": "The Concept of Anxiety (1844)", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 217, "text": "It isn't the great book I had hoped it would be. It's just a run-of-the-mill book. And the awful thing is that it is absolutely the best I can do.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "source": "Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1938; pub. 1989)", "themes": ["anxiety", "writing"] },
    { "id": 218, "text": "Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.", "author": "Anne Lamott", "source": "Bird by Bird (1994)", "themes": ["anxiety", "writing"] },
    { "id": 219, "text": "One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "source": "The Conquest of Happiness (1930), Ch. 5, 'Fatigue'", "themes": ["anxiety", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 220, "text": "What a born melancholiac I am! The only way I keep afloat is by working. Directly I stop working I feel that I am sinking down, down.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "source": "A Writer's Diary (1953), entry for 23 June 1929", "themes": ["anxiety", "writing"] },
    { "id": 221, "text": "I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "source": "Letter to Joseph Hooker (11 January 1844)", "themes": ["anxiety", "career"] },
    { "id": 222, "text": "For such is the work of philosophy: it cures souls, draws off vain anxieties, confers freedom from desires, drives away fears.", "author": "Cicero", "source": "Tusculan Disputations, Book II", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 223, "text": "Perturbations of mind create misery, while quietness of mind makes life happy.", "author": "Cicero", "source": "Tusculan Disputations, Book V", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 224, "text": "What doth care about future events bring thee, save sorrow upon sorrow? Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.", "author": "Thomas à Kempis", "source": "The Imitation of Christ, Book III, Ch. 30", "themes": ["anxiety"] },
    { "id": 225, "text": "It is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.", "author": "Epictetus", "source": "Discourses, Book II, Ch. 1 (c. 108 CE)", "themes": ["fear"] },
    { "id": 226, "text": "If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book VIII", "themes": ["fear"] },
    { "id": 227, "text": "The thing I fear most is fear.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "source": "Essays, Book I, Ch. 18, 'Of Fear' (1580)", "themes": ["fear"] },
    { "id": 228, "text": "A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment.", "author": "Rollo May", "source": "The Meaning of Anxiety (1950)", "themes": ["fear", "health"] },
    { "id": 229, "text": "All forms of fear produce fatigue.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "source": "The Conquest of Happiness (1930), Ch. 5, 'Fatigue'", "themes": ["fear", "health"] },
    { "id": 230, "text": "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "source": "Pensées, no. 206 (1670)", "themes": ["fear"] },
    { "id": 231, "text": "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.", "author": "H.P. Lovecraft", "source": "Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)", "themes": ["fear", "writing"] },
    { "id": 232, "text": "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.", "author": "Helen Keller", "source": "The Open Door (1957)", "themes": ["fear", "courage"] },
    { "id": 233, "text": "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.", "author": "Edmund Burke", "source": "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Part II, Sec. 2", "themes": ["fear"] },
    { "id": 234, "text": "The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.", "author": "Robert Burton", "source": "The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III", "themes": ["fear"] },
    { "id": 235, "text": "We are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.", "author": "Matthew Arnold", "source": "Dover Beach (1867)", "themes": ["fear", "writing"] },
    { "id": 236, "text": "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.", "author": "William James", "source": "The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4", "themes": ["uncertainty", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 237, "text": "What characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.", "author": "Rollo May", "source": "The Meaning of Anxiety (1950)", "themes": ["uncertainty", "health"] },
    { "id": 238, "text": "The irritation of doubt causes a struggle to attain a state of belief.", "author": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "source": "The Fixation of Belief (1877), Sec. IV", "themes": ["uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 239, "text": "I mean Negative Capability, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.", "author": "John Keats", "source": "Letter to George and Thomas Keats (21-27 Dec. 1817)", "themes": ["uncertainty", "creativity", "writing"] },
    { "id": 240, "text": "The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals.", "author": "Werner Heisenberg", "source": "Physics and Philosophy (1958)", "themes": ["uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 241, "text": "The most important questions of life are, for the most part, only problems of probability.", "author": "Pierre-Simon Laplace", "source": "A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1814), Ch. 1", "themes": ["uncertainty", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 242, "text": "Imaginary causes have gradually receded with the widening bounds of knowledge, and disappear entirely before sound philosophy, which sees in them only the expression of our ignorance of the true causes.", "author": "Pierre-Simon Laplace", "source": "A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1814), Ch. 2", "themes": ["uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 243, "text": "We do not know; we can only guess.", "author": "Karl Popper", "source": "The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934)", "themes": ["uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 244, "text": "Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.", "author": "Karl Popper", "source": "In Search of a Better World (1984)", "themes": ["uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 245, "text": "The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer.", "author": "David Hume", "source": "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), Sec. 4", "themes": ["uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 246, "text": "A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.", "author": "David Hume", "source": "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), Sec. 10", "themes": ["uncertainty", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 247, "text": "The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "source": "The Blue and Brown Books (1958)", "themes": ["uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 249, "text": "Your doubt may become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become critical.", "author": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "source": "Letters to a Young Poet, Letter 1 (1903)", "themes": ["uncertainty", "growth"] },
    { "id": 250, "text": "Working calmly will let you elaborate and extend things, but the breakthroughs generally come only after great frustration and emotional involvement.", "author": "Richard Hamming", "source": "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (1997)", "themes": ["frustration", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 251, "text": "If you cannot drop a wrong problem, then the first time you meet one you will be stuck with it for the rest of your career.", "author": "Richard Hamming", "source": "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (1997)", "themes": ["frustration", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 252, "text": "When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries—it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.", "author": "Donald Norman", "source": "The Design of Everyday Things, Introduction to the 2002 Edition", "themes": ["frustration", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 253, "text": "I have learned more from my failures than can ever be revealed in the cold print of a scientific article.", "author": "C.A.R. Hoare", "source": "The Emperor's Old Clothes, 1980 Turing Award Lecture", "themes": ["frustration", "failure", "learning"] },
    { "id": 254, "text": "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?", "author": "Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger", "source": "The Elements of Programming Style, 2nd ed. (1978), Ch. 2", "themes": ["frustration", "debugging", "programming"] },
    { "id": 255, "text": "If you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve first some related problem.", "author": "George Pólya", "source": "How to Solve It (1945)", "themes": ["frustration", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 256, "text": "My main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TeX project is that software is hard.", "author": "Donald Knuth", "source": "All Questions Answered (2002), Notices of the AMS", "themes": ["frustration", "programming"] },
    { "id": 257, "text": "I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.", "author": "Ecclesiastes", "source": "Ecclesiastes 2:11 (KJV)", "themes": ["frustration"] },
    { "id": 258, "text": "I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.", "author": "Ecclesiastes", "source": "Ecclesiastes 2:18 (KJV)", "themes": ["frustration"] },
    { "id": 259, "text": "What has to be overcome is not difficulty of the intellect but of the will.", "author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "source": "Philosophical Occasions (1993)", "themes": ["frustration", "persistence"] },
    { "id": 260, "text": "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.", "author": "George Orwell", "source": "Why I Write (1946)", "themes": ["frustration", "writing"] },
    { "id": 261, "text": "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.", "author": "Zora Neale Hurston", "source": "Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)", "themes": ["frustration", "writing"] },
    { "id": 262, "text": "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.", "author": "Marie Curie", "source": "Madame Curie: A Biography (1937)", "themes": ["courage", "persistence"] },
    { "id": 263, "text": "We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.", "author": "Audre Lorde", "source": "Sister Outsider, 'The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action' (1977)", "themes": ["courage", "fear"] },
    { "id": 264, "text": "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "source": "West India Emancipation, speech, Canandaigua, NY (Aug. 3, 1857)", "themes": ["courage", "change"] },
    { "id": 265, "text": "At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work, as a human being.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book V, 5.1 (tr. Gregory Hays)", "themes": ["career", "motivation"] },
    { "id": 266, "text": "Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.", "author": "Thomas Carlyle", "source": "Past and Present, Book III, Ch. XI 'Labour' (1843)", "themes": ["career"] },
    { "id": 267, "text": "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.", "author": "Voltaire", "source": "Candide, Ch. XXX (1759)", "themes": ["career"] },
    { "id": 268, "text": "Cast down your bucket where you are.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "source": "Up From Slavery, Ch. XIV, The Atlanta Exposition Address (1901)", "themes": ["career"] },
    { "id": 269, "text": "It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "source": "Letter to Harrison Blake (November 16, 1857)", "themes": ["career"] },
    { "id": 270, "text": "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.", "author": "George Eliot", "source": "Middlemarch (1871-72)", "themes": ["career"] },
    { "id": 271, "text": "It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men.", "author": "John Ruskin", "source": "The Stones of Venice, Vol. II, Ch. VI 'The Nature of Gothic' (1853)", "themes": ["career"] },
    { "id": 272, "text": "If you press me to say why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed, except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "source": "Essays, Book I, Ch. 27, Of Friendship (1580)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 273, "text": "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.", "author": "Aristotle", "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 274, "text": "Friendship makes prosperity more shining, and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.", "author": "Cicero", "source": "Laelius de Amicitia, Sec. 22 (44 BC)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 275, "text": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", "author": "Jane Austen", "source": "Pride and Prejudice (1813)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 276, "text": "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "source": "Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 277, "text": "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "source": "Sonnet 116", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 278, "text": "In the misfortune of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.", "author": "La Rochefoucauld", "source": "Maxims, No. 99 (1665)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 279, "text": "Reader, I married him.", "author": "Charlotte Brontë", "source": "Jane Eyre, Ch. 38 (1847)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 280, "text": "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.", "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "source": "Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 43 (1850)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 281, "text": "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.", "author": "Robert Browning", "source": "Rabbi Ben Ezra (1864)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 282, "text": "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.", "author": "Alfred, Lord Tennyson", "source": "In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 283, "text": "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.", "author": "John Donne", "source": "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII (1624)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 284, "text": "Life is short, and the art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous; and decision difficult.", "author": "Hippocrates", "source": "Aphorisms, Section I", "themes": ["health", "time"] },
    { "id": 285, "text": "A sound mind in a sound body is a short, but full, description of a happy state in this world.", "author": "John Locke", "source": "Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 286, "text": "Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.", "author": "Susan Sontag", "source": "Illness as Metaphor, Foreword (1978)", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 287, "text": "English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "source": "On Being Ill (1926)", "themes": ["health", "communication"] },
    { "id": 288, "text": "Be not solitary, be not idle.", "author": "Robert Burton", "source": "The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 289, "text": "Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing that money cannot buy.", "author": "Izaak Walton", "source": "The Compleat Angler, Part I, Ch. 21 (1653)", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 290, "text": "When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide.", "author": "John Milton", "source": "On His Blindness, Sonnet 19 (c. 1655)", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 291, "text": "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.", "author": "Adam Smith", "source": "The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch. II (1776)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 292, "text": "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.", "author": "Adam Smith", "source": "The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Ch. VIII (1776)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 293, "text": "Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.", "author": "Thorstein Veblen", "source": "The Theory of the Leisure Class, p. 57 (1899)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 294, "text": "In the long run we are all dead.", "author": "John Maynard Keynes", "source": "A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 295, "text": "Nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.", "author": "Adam Ferguson", "source": "An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 296, "text": "The bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.", "author": "Frédéric Bastiat", "source": "That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen (1850)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 297, "text": "I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.", "author": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "source": "Democracy in America, Vol. I, Ch. III (1835)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 298, "text": "Never use a long word where a short one will do.", "author": "George Orwell", "source": "Politics and the English Language (1946)", "themes": ["communication"] },
    { "id": 299, "text": "If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.", "author": "George Orwell", "source": "Politics and the English Language (1946)", "themes": ["communication"] },
    { "id": 300, "text": "Omit needless words.", "author": "William Strunk Jr.", "source": "The Elements of Style, Ch. II, Rule 17 (1918)", "themes": ["communication", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 301, "text": "Vigorous writing is concise.", "author": "William Strunk Jr.", "source": "The Elements of Style, Ch. II, Rule 17 (1918)", "themes": ["communication", "writing"] },
    { "id": 302, "text": "Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "source": "Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)", "themes": ["communication"] },
    { "id": 303, "text": "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.", "author": "Blaise Pascal", "source": "Lettres Provinciales, Letter XVI (1657)", "themes": ["communication"] },
    { "id": 304, "text": "Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book IV, 43", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 305, "text": "But at my back I always hear time's wingèd chariot hurrying near.", "author": "Andrew Marvell", "source": "To His Coy Mistress (1681)", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 306, "text": "How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year!", "author": "John Milton", "source": "Sonnet VII, How Soon Hath Time (1632)", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 307, "text": "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying.", "author": "Robert Herrick", "source": "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648)", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 308, "text": "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a Line.", "author": "Omar Khayyám (tr. Edward FitzGerald)", "source": "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Quatrain LI (1859)", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 309, "text": "Art is long, and Time is fleeting.", "author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "source": "A Psalm of Life (1838)", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 310, "text": "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.", "author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "source": "Ozymandias (1818)", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 311, "text": "When I have fears that I may cease to be before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.", "author": "John Keats", "source": "When I Have Fears (1818)", "themes": ["time"] },
    { "id": 312, "text": "For this is your business, to act well the character assigned you; to choose it is another's.", "author": "Epictetus", "source": "Enchiridion, Ch. 17", "themes": ["career", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 313, "text": "The reward of labour is life.", "author": "William Morris", "source": "News from Nowhere, Ch. 15 (1890)", "themes": ["career"] },
    { "id": 314, "text": "Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "source": "Up From Slavery, Ch. XII, Raising Money (1901)", "themes": ["career", "persistence"] },
    { "id": 315, "text": "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?", "author": "George Eliot", "source": "Middlemarch (1871-72)", "themes": ["relationships"] },
    { "id": 316, "text": "It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.", "author": "Florence Nightingale", "source": "Notes on Hospitals, 3rd ed. (1863), Preface", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 317, "text": "The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.", "author": "Thomas Malthus", "source": "An Essay on the Principle of Population, Ch. VII (1798)", "themes": ["finance"] },
    { "id": 318, "text": "When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.", "author": "Thomas Edison", "source": "Success magazine (February 1898)", "themes": ["persistence", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 319, "text": "The conclusion is, not that hardships are desirable, but that virtue is desirable, which enables us patiently to endure hardships.", "author": "Seneca", "source": "Letters to Lucilius, Letter LXVII", "themes": ["persistence", "patience"] },
    { "id": 320, "text": "Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.", "author": "William James", "source": "The Principles of Psychology, Ch. 4 (1890)", "themes": ["motivation", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 321, "text": "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book X.16", "themes": ["motivation", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 322, "text": "In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.", "author": "Frederick Winslow Taylor", "source": "The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)", "themes": ["productivity", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 324, "text": "Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.", "author": "Heraclitus", "source": "Fragments, DK22B12", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 325, "text": "For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "source": "Essays: First Series, \"Compensation\" (1841)", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 326, "text": "This world is mere change, and this life, opinion.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "source": "Meditations, Book IV.3", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 327, "text": "Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity.", "author": "Herbert Spencer", "source": "Social Statics, Part I, Ch. 2 (1851)", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 328, "text": "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "source": "Process and Reality (1929)", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 329, "text": "The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.", "author": "Alfred North Whitehead", "source": "Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect, Ch. 3 (1927)", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 330, "text": "The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "source": "On Liberty, Ch. III (1859)", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 331, "text": "The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.", "author": "Peter Drucker", "source": "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973)", "themes": ["change", "career"] },
    { "id": 332, "text": "Change is not merely necessary to life; it is life.", "author": "Alvin Toffler", "source": "Future Shock, Ch. 15 (1970)", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 333, "text": "The acceleration of change in our time is, itself, an elemental force.", "author": "Alvin Toffler", "source": "Future Shock, Introduction (1970)", "themes": ["change", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 334, "text": "Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "source": "The Prince, Ch. XXV (1532)", "themes": ["success", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 335, "text": "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "source": "Up From Slavery (1901)", "themes": ["success", "failure"] },
    { "id": 336, "text": "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.", "author": "Richard Feynman", "source": "Rogers Commission Report, Appendix F (1986)", "themes": ["success", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 337, "text": "One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.", "author": "Aristotle", "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1098a", "themes": ["success", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 338, "text": "The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.", "author": "Andrew Carnegie", "source": "\"Wealth,\" North American Review (June 1889)", "themes": ["success", "finance"] },
    { "id": 339, "text": "There is no wealth but life.", "author": "John Ruskin", "source": "Unto This Last, Essay IV \"Ad Valorem\" (1862)", "themes": ["success", "finance"] },
    { "id": 341, "text": "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same.", "author": "Rudyard Kipling", "source": "\"If—,\" Rewards and Fairies (1910)", "themes": ["success", "failure"] },
    { "id": 342, "text": "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.", "author": "Seneca", "source": "Letters to Lucilius, Letter II", "themes": ["success", "finance"] },
    { "id": 343, "text": "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.", "author": "Henry Ford", "source": "My Life and Work (1922)", "themes": ["success", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 344, "text": "In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a career with a vision will get you a distance proportional to n, while no vision will get you only the distance √n.", "author": "Richard Hamming", "source": "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)", "themes": ["success", "career"] },
    { "id": 345, "text": "Morale in an organization does not mean that 'people get along together'; the test is performance not conformance.", "author": "Peter Drucker", "source": "The Effective Executive (1966)", "themes": ["success", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 346, "text": "To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.", "author": "Aristotle", "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1099b", "themes": ["success", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 347, "text": "For fifteen days I strove to prove that there could not be any functions like those I have since called Fuchsian functions.", "author": "Henri Poincaré", "source": "Science and Method (1908)", "themes": ["failure", "persistence"] },
    { "id": 348, "text": "Often when one works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, longer or shorter, and sits down anew to the work.", "author": "Henri Poincaré", "source": "\"Mathematical Creation,\" The Monist (1910)", "themes": ["failure", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 349, "text": "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.", "author": "Samuel Smiles", "source": "Self-Help, Ch. XI (1859)", "themes": ["failure", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 350, "text": "I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.", "author": "Thomas Edison", "source": "\"Talks with Edison,\" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 80 (February 1890)", "themes": ["failure", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 351, "text": "Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, gives us, as a reward for our humility in being reproved, an absolute advancement in knowledge.", "author": "Michael Faraday", "source": "Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851)", "themes": ["failure", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 352, "text": "The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "source": "Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism 45 (1620)", "themes": ["failure"] },
    { "id": 353, "text": "The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "source": "Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism 41 (1620)", "themes": ["failure"] },
    { "id": 354, "text": "Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.", "author": "Epictetus", "source": "Enchiridion, Ch. 5", "themes": ["failure"] },
    { "id": 355, "text": "Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before, consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.", "author": "George Eliot", "source": "Adam Bede (1859)", "themes": ["failure"] },
    { "id": 356, "text": "Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.", "author": "William Strunk Jr.", "source": "The Elements of Style, Rule 12 (1918)", "themes": ["writing", "communication"] },
    { "id": 357, "text": "Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.", "author": "E.B. White", "source": "The Elements of Style, \"An Approach to Style\" (1959)", "themes": ["writing", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 358, "text": "Nouns and verbs, not their assistants, give good writing its toughness and color.", "author": "E.B. White", "source": "The Elements of Style, \"An Approach to Style,\" Reminder 4 (1959)", "themes": ["writing", "communication"] },
    { "id": 359, "text": "Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.", "author": "William Zinsser", "source": "On Writing Well (1976)", "themes": ["writing", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 360, "text": "Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost.", "author": "William Zinsser", "source": "On Writing Well (1976)", "themes": ["writing", "persistence"] },
    { "id": 361, "text": "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "source": "Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. II (1791)", "themes": ["writing", "communication"] },
    { "id": 362, "text": "Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.", "author": "Arthur Quiller-Couch", "source": "On the Art of Writing, \"On Style\" (1916)", "themes": ["writing", "courage"] },
    { "id": 363, "text": "Whereas economic man maximizes—selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices—looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough.'", "author": "Herbert Simon", "source": "Administrative Behavior (1947)", "themes": ["decision-making", "complexity"] },
    { "id": 364, "text": "The capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world.", "author": "Herbert Simon", "source": "Models of Man (1957)", "themes": ["decision-making", "uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 365, "text": "My way is to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing over the one Pro, and over the other Con.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "source": "Letter to Joseph Priestley (1772)", "themes": ["decision-making", "simplicity"] },
    { "id": 366, "text": "When these difficult Cases occur, they are difficult chiefly because while we have them under Consideration all the Reasons pro and con are not present to the Mind at the same time.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "source": "Letter to Joseph Priestley (1772)", "themes": ["decision-making", "uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 367, "text": "It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "source": "The Prince, Ch. VI (1532)", "themes": ["decision-making", "change"] },
    { "id": 368, "text": "Irresolute princes, to avoid present dangers, generally follow the neutral path, and are generally ruined.", "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli", "source": "The Prince, Ch. XXI (1532)", "themes": ["decision-making", "fear"] },
    { "id": 369, "text": "War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.", "author": "Carl von Clausewitz", "source": "On War, Book I (1832)", "themes": ["decision-making", "uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 370, "text": "Resolution is an act of courage in single instances, and if it becomes a characteristic trait, it is a habit of the mind.", "author": "Carl von Clausewitz", "source": "On War, Book I, Ch. 3 (1832)", "themes": ["decision-making", "courage"] },
    { "id": 371, "text": "Many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backward. Invert, always invert.", "author": "Charlie Munger", "source": "Poor Charlie's Almanack, Talk Four (2005)", "themes": ["decision-making", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 372, "text": "Effective executives do not make a great many decisions. They concentrate on what is important.", "author": "Peter Drucker", "source": "The Effective Executive (1966)", "themes": ["decision-making", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 373, "text": "Choice will be deliberate desire of things in our own power; for when we have decided as a result of deliberation, we desire in accordance with our deliberation.", "author": "Aristotle", "source": "Nicomachean Ethics, Book III", "themes": ["decision-making"] },
    { "id": 374, "text": "He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.", "author": "Sun Tzu", "source": "The Art of War, Ch. III", "themes": ["decision-making", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 375, "text": "He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.", "author": "Sun Tzu", "source": "The Art of War, Ch. III", "themes": ["decision-making", "career"] },
    { "id": 377, "text": "Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice.", "author": "George Pólya", "source": "How to Solve It (1945)", "themes": ["problem-solving", "learning"] },
    { "id": 378, "text": "If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work.", "author": "Richard Hamming", "source": "You and Your Research (1986)", "themes": ["problem-solving", "career"] },
    { "id": 379, "text": "Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.", "author": "Richard Hamming", "source": "You and Your Research (1986)", "themes": ["problem-solving", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 380, "text": "The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious, and there is no rational explanation for it.", "author": "Eugene Wigner", "source": "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960)", "themes": ["problem-solving", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 381, "text": "Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.", "author": "Russell Ackoff", "source": "Redesigning the Future (1974)", "themes": ["problem-solving", "complexity"] },
    { "id": 382, "text": "Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.", "author": "Edward de Bono", "source": "Lateral Thinking for Management (1982)", "themes": ["creativity", "change"] },
    { "id": 383, "text": "Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits.", "author": "Twyla Tharp", "source": "The Creative Habit (2003)", "themes": ["creativity", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 384, "text": "Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one.", "author": "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi", "source": "Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1996)", "themes": ["creativity", "change"] },
    { "id": 385, "text": "The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.", "author": "Arthur Koestler", "source": "The Act of Creation (1964)", "themes": ["creativity", "wisdom"] },
    { "id": 386, "text": "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "source": "Circles, Essays: First Series (1841)", "themes": ["growth", "uncertainty"] },
    { "id": 387, "text": "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.", "author": "Henry David Thoreau", "source": "Walden, Ch. II \"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For\" (1854)", "themes": ["growth", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 388, "text": "Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.", "author": "William James", "source": "The Principles of Psychology, Ch. IV \"Habit\" (1890)", "themes": ["growth", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 389, "text": "He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "source": "On Liberty, Ch. III (1859)", "themes": ["growth", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 390, "text": "Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "source": "Self-Reliance, Essays: First Series (1841)", "themes": ["growth", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 391, "text": "One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has a character.", "author": "John Stuart Mill", "source": "On Liberty, Ch. III (1859)", "themes": ["growth", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 392, "text": "I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "source": "Up From Slavery, Ch. 4 (1901)", "themes": ["motivation", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 393, "text": "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.", "author": "Epictetus", "source": "Discourses, Book III, Ch. 23", "themes": ["motivation", "decision-making"] },
    { "id": 394, "text": "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.", "author": "Michel de Montaigne", "source": "Essays, Book I, Ch. 39 (1580)", "themes": ["motivation", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 395, "text": "Well done is better than well said.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "source": "Poor Richard's Almanack (1737)", "themes": ["motivation", "communication"] },
    { "id": 396, "text": "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.", "author": "Booker T. Washington", "source": "Up From Slavery, Ch. 14 (1901)", "themes": ["motivation", "career"] },
    { "id": 397, "text": "Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.", "author": "Cicero", "source": "Pro Balbo, Sec. 45", "themes": ["motivation", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 398, "text": "If there is no struggle there is no progress.", "author": "Frederick Douglass", "source": "West India Emancipation (1857)", "themes": ["persistence", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 399, "text": "It is difficulties that show what men are.", "author": "Epictetus", "source": "Discourses, Book I, Ch. 24", "themes": ["persistence", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 401, "text": "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "source": "Of Adversity, Essays, Civil and Moral (1625)", "themes": ["persistence", "philosophy"] },
    { "id": 402, "text": "Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.", "author": "Samuel Johnson", "source": "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Ch. XIII (1759)", "themes": ["persistence", "patience"] },
    { "id": 403, "text": "It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.", "author": "Henri Poincaré", "source": "Science and Method, Part II, Ch. 2 (1908)", "themes": ["creativity", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 405, "text": "The principal aim of mathematical education is to develop certain faculties of the mind, and among these intuition is not the least precious.", "author": "Henri Poincaré", "source": "Science and Method, Part II, Ch. 2 (1908)", "themes": ["creativity", "learning"] },
    { "id": 406, "text": "We need heuristic reasoning when we construct a strict proof as we need scaffolding when we erect a building.", "author": "George Pólya", "source": "How to Solve It, p. 113 (1945)", "themes": ["creativity", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 407, "text": "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded.", "author": "Mary Shelley", "source": "Introduction to Frankenstein, Revised Edition (1831)", "themes": ["creativity"] },
    { "id": 408, "text": "In general we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it.", "author": "Richard Feynman", "source": "The Character of Physical Law, Ch. 7 (1965)", "themes": ["creativity", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 409, "text": "It is not uncommon for intelligent adults to turn into passive observers of their own incompetence in anything but elementary mathematics.", "author": "Seymour Papert", "source": "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980)", "themes": ["learning"] },
    { "id": 410, "text": "To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself, that is the first duty of the educator.", "author": "Maria Montessori", "source": "The Discovery of the Child, Ch. 8 (1948)", "themes": ["learning", "patience"] },
    { "id": 411, "text": "Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.", "author": "Francis Bacon", "source": "Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism 3 (1620)", "themes": ["learning", "problem-solving"] },
    { "id": 412, "text": "Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.", "author": "John Dewey", "source": "Democracy and Education, Ch. III (1916)", "themes": ["learning", "communication"] },
    { "id": 413, "text": "Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.", "author": "Hippocrates", "source": "Aphorisms, Section II, Aphorism 3 (tr. Francis Adams)", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 414, "text": "The mind must have a change,—but a change of such a kind that it is not unnerved, but merely unbent.", "author": "Seneca", "source": "Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 15 (tr. Richard Gummere)", "themes": ["health", "productivity"] },
    { "id": 415, "text": "Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.", "author": "Florence Nightingale", "source": "Notes on Nursing, Ch. IV, Noise (1859)", "themes": ["health", "anxiety"] },
    { "id": 416, "text": "The first wealth is health.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "source": "The Conduct of Life, Power (1860)", "themes": ["health", "finance"] },
    { "id": 417, "text": "In every movement of the body, whenever one begins to endure pain, it will be relieved by rest.", "author": "Hippocrates", "source": "Aphorisms, Section II, Aphorism 48 (tr. Francis Adams)", "themes": ["health"] },
    { "id": 418, "text": "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.", "author": "Eric S. Raymond", "source": "The Cathedral and the Bazaar, \"Release Early, Release Often\" (1997)", "themes": ["debugging", "programming"] },
    { "id": 419, "text": "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.", "author": "Grace Hopper", "source": "As quoted in Time magazine (16 April 1984)", "themes": ["debugging", "programming"] },
    { "id": 420, "text": "It is better to write and run incomplete tests than not to run complete tests.", "author": "Martin Fowler", "source": "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, p. 98 (1999)", "themes": ["debugging", "programming"] }
  ]
}