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"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley
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"If someone tells you that something is not possible, it is a reflection of their limitations, not yours." Unknown
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"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." Thomas Alva Edison
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"You can't go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending." C. S. Lewis
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"Nothing is as dangerous to feminism as a traditional woman in the splendor of her full femininity." Unbekannt
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"People may hate you because you are different and do not live according to society's standards, but deep down they wish they had the courage to do the same." Kevin Hart
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"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." Horace Jackson Brown Jr.
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"Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry more about the day they stop doing it." Jeffrey Zeldman
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"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." Dalai Lama
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." William Shakespeare
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"It is not the Beginning that is rewarded, but only Perseverance" Katharina von Siena
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here." James Maury „Jim“ Henson
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"He who dares to think for himself will also act for himself." Bettina von Arnim
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"There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them." Henri Émile Benoît Matisse
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Learning never exhausts the mind. Art is never finished, only abandoned. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Water is the driving force of all nature.”" Leonardo da Vinci
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
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"Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant." Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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"Sacred cows that you slaughter make the best steaks." Richard Nicolosi
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"Only those who go their own way can never be overtaken by anyone." Marlon Brando
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"I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success." John Francis „Jack“ Welch Jr.
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"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Henry Ford
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"Forget all the reasons why you might fail. Concentrate on the reason why you will succeed." Unbekannt
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"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." Anthony Robbins
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"Those who want lasting success should never settle for being merely satisfied." Unbekannt
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"He who regards failure only as a small detour never loses sight of his goal." Martin Luther
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"Being successful requires two things: Clear goals and a burning desire to achieve them." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Success is the result of consistency, and failures are just steps along the way. Those who keep going can’t help but succeed eventually." Thomas Alva Edison
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison
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"Success comes to those who keep working while they wait for it." Thomas Alva Edison
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill Gates
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"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." Thomas Alva Edison
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"Experience is what we call the sum of all our mistakes." Thomas Alva Edison
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"I don't measure success by my wins, but by whether I get better every year" Tiger Woods
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"No matter what other people tell you, words and ideas can change the world" Robin Williams
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"I believe one can change at any age, but it is much better to do it now." Rita Mae Brown
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"Get ready for happiness and seize the opportunity when it presents itself." Unbekannt
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"“The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.”" Mark Twain
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"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up." George Herman Babe Ruth Jr.
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill
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"Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I will do what others can't." Jerry Rice
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." Marcus Aurelius
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"In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK." Dr. Michio Kaku
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"Usually in science, if we're off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something's wrong with the theory. We're off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we're off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is one with 100 and 20 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science." Michio Kaku
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"In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it." Papst Pius XII
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"I'm a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way" Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they've made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they're too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer 'credentials'." ZUBY
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"I’m aware this two page backgrounder & experimental proposal aims to show whether or not viruses exist, focussing on SARS-CoV-2. I’m a signatory because, having given a lot of thought to the entire proposition, I now believe it’s yet another of the lies to which we’ve been subject. In the case of scientists, even those in commercial drug discovery, have taken as fact that viruses exist without ever reviewing the original papers." Dr Mike Yeadon
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"The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth." Thomas von Aquin
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"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves." Hermann Hesse
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"What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves." Arthur Schopenhauer
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"The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life." Rabindranath Tagore
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"When the winds of change blow, some build walls and others build windmills." Chinesisches Sprichwort
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"Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change themselves" Leo Tolstoi
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"If you can’t prove it in an experiment, it’s called a belief." yoice.net / non-profit internet aktivisten
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." Marcus Aurelius
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"Boldness is the beginning of action, but fortune controls how it ends" Democritus
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one." Mark Twain
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"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." Zig Ziglar
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"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"I will return to my forest to die in peace. The whole of science and all its appendages are just a bunch of thieves hanging like marionettes on strings and having to dance to whatever tune their well-hidden slave masters deem necessary." Viktor Schauberger
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"They've been programmed and I'm sad because I know that it's hard for people like that to take an interest - serious interest in world affairs - taken serious interest in what their elected officials are doing and they're not going to be really inclined to study and or discover the deception that's being used against them and so I'm sad because I I see all of that in the flash in my mind as being an indication of how easy it is for the masses to be manipulated" G. Edward Griffin
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"I am open to everything now. I'm open to things that I never thought I would have been open to. And I -- I really think that the door fully came open. I've realized that everything in the -- in the news is BS, everything. There's nothing that I can consume on any legacy media that I can trust. And that is shocking. And that's disturbing. And it makes you wonder how long it's been going on for. And I'm concerned, it might have been a very long time." David Drew Pinsky
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"One reason that freedom of speech is so important is that doubt is the foundation of science." Naval Ravikant
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"We are not witnessing viral epidemics; we are witnessing epidemics of fear. And both the media and the pharmaceutical industry carry most of the responsibility for amplifying fears, fears that happen, incidentally, to always ignite fantastically profitable business. Research hypotheses covering these areas of virus research are practically never scientifically verified with appropriate controls. Instead, they are established by "consensus." This is then rapidly reshaped into a dogma, efficiently perpetuated in a quasi-religious manner by the media, including ensuring that research funding is restricted to projects supporting the dogma, excluding research into alternative hypotheses. An important tool to keep dissenting voices out of the debate is censorship at various levels ranging from the popular media to scientific publications." Etienne de Harven
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"The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earth’s surface with four months’ of satellite data. Reto Stockli, now at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, did much of this work. Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble." Robert Simmon
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"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"Now, eighteen months after the first light, three months after the true day, but a very few days after the pure Sun of that most wonderful study began to shine, nothing restrains me; it is my pleasure to yield to the inspired frenzy, it is my pleasure to taunt mortal men with the candid acknowledgement that I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far, far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God Himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study Him." Johannes Kepler
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"Some people think God created the universe. Some people think nothing created the universe, which is the funniest guess and the nothing people make fun of the God people. They say, God doesn't exist. I'm like, okay, maybe. But you know what? Definitely doesn't exist. Nothing. That's the defining characteristic of nothing is that it doesn't exist. So what are we talking about? Either you think it's God, something you can't see, touch, taste, photograph, and science can't prove, or you think it's nothing, something you can't see. Touch, taste, photograph, and science can't prove. But I think we can all agree if nothing, if you are nothing, sometimes spontaneously erupts into everything. That's a pretty goddamn magical fucking nothing you guys and ask. Ask the nothing people, what happens when you die? They'll tell you nothing. You go into nothing. I'm like, you mean you merge back with your creator? That's heaven, bitch." Pete Holmes
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"For example, if I suspect that there might still be beer in the fridge and I check, then in principle I'm already doing a preliminary form of science. Big difference to theology. In theology, assumptions are not usually tested. So if I just say “there's beer in the fridge”, I'm a theologian. If I look, I'm a scientist. If I look, find nothing and still claim there's beer in it - then I'm an esoteric!" Vince Ebert
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"We have reached the point in our absurdity where distinguished scientists are censored by total dumbshits." Dr. Robert Malone
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"We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world." Terence McKenna
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"And if it continues, then we have to keep going as well. We cannot stop—we cannot say, ‘We’re stopping now with Omicron.’ Omicron will not end the pandemic either, even if that were actually the case—which we will prevent." Karl Lauterbach
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"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." Henry David Thoreau
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"People have no idea how many constraints there are in politics. Politicians are, to some extent, governed by processes, events, and procedures beyond their control. You are not all-powerful—at times, you are simply powerless." Peter Tauber
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"TIME: Was there a particular kind of terrorism in Germany associated with Baader, Meinhof, and the others? Helmut Schmidt: I suspect that all forms of terrorism—whether Germany’s RAF, Italy’s Brigate Rosse, the French, the Irish, the Spanish, or Arab groups—differ little in their contempt for human life. They are surpassed by certain forms of state terrorism. TIME: Are you serious? Who do you mean? Helmut Schmidt: Let’s leave it at that. But I do mean what I’m saying." Helmut Schmidt
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"You can protect a society, you can protect an economy, and you can even protect personal relationships to death." Prof. Ferdinand Kirchhof
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"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell
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"Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is mob rule—incited by demagogues and steered in an unstable manner. German democracy in particular displays traits of a soft totalitarianism, marked by pervasive self-censorship that is often scarcely even recognized as such." Prof. Hans Hermann Hoppe
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"As proposals for action along new lines arise to compete for the moral and physical support of masses, propaganda attains eminence as the one means of mass mobilization which is cheaper than violence, bribery or other possible control techniques." Harold D. Lasswell
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"Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers." David Hume