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Some miscellaneous stuff I keep here:

Writing

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Self-help writing tutorials:

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Quotes to ponder

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Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

— Chinese proverb

Even a rose goes through a lot of dirt before it blossoms.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.


Info sources

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Northeast Caucasian

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Other

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  • The Contribution of Linguistic Factors to the Intelligibility of Closely Related Languages
  • Hahn, Reinard F. (1998). "Uyghur". The Turkic Languages. Taylor & Francis. p. 379. ISBN 9780415082006. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
  • Siberian link with Na-Dené languages by Edward Vajda
  • The Oceanic Languages