Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

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Topic

Following your heart Taking risks Death

Speaker

Steve Jobs

Source

2005 Stanford commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Occupation

Entrepreneur Businessperson

From

United States

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Citation

Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Death in itself is nothing, but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Aurenge-Zebe

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Topic
Fear of death Mystery of death Death
Speaker
Aureng-zebe

Author

John Dryden
Source
Aurenge-Zebe
Medium
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Genre
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Language
English
Time
1675 1670s 17th century
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Original Citation

Dryden, John. Aureng-Zebe. King's Company, 1675, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Aureng-Zebe." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing. Vol. 12, University of California Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 1.

Another quote of the following type Advice

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic
Sadism

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1884, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 2.