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- destiny/fleeting
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- authorship/original
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title: Favorite Quotes
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title: Favorite Quotes
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# Favorite Quotes
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# Favorite Quotes
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> [!quote] Ecclesiastes 10:10 King James Version
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> [!quote] Ecclesiastes 10:10 King James Version
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> If the iron be blunt,
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> If the iron be blunt,
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> and he do not whet the edge,
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> and he do not whet the edge,
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> then must he put to more strength:
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> then must he put to more strength:
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> but wisdom _is_ profitable to direct.
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> but wisdom _is_ profitable to direct.
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I like the story because it's well known
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I like the story because it's well known
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and easily interpreted as an [optimization problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_problem).
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and easily interpreted as an [optimization problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_problem).
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## About Originality
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> [!quote] Brian Eno, _A Year With Swollen Appendices_, p. 67
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> A way of doing something original is by trying something so painstaking
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> that nobody else has ever bothered with it.
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