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"One waits for the times to change. The other seizes it and acts." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as being stuck in a place where you don't belong" Mandy Hale
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"No matter what other people tell you, words and ideas can change the world" Robin Williams
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"People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same." Paulo Coelho
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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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"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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"Sailing is not just a skill, but an art of taming the wind." Unbekannt
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"Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry." Steven Spielberg
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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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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." Nikos Kazantzakis
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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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"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." Arnold Schwarzenegger
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"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them." Brian Tracy
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"Switching your mindset from ‘I hope I can do this’ to ‘I am going to make this happen’ is a real game changer." Unbekannt
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination." Usain Bolt
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"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it." Jordan Belfort
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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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"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness" Richard Horton
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"People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations….For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations….You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that." George Francis Rayner Ellis
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"Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science." Edwin Grant Conklin
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"Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you." Dara O'Briain
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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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"Never happy is he who eternally chases what he has not, and what he has he forgets." William Shakespeare
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"You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything." John Calvin Maxwell
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"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." Josh Billings
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"We should not take ourselves too seriously. No one has a monopoly on wisdom." Queen Elizabeth II
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"One should never judge human plans and undertakings by their outcome" Friedrich II, König von Preußen
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"Any difficult situation you overcome now, you will be spared in the future." Dalai Lama
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"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's." Joseph John Campbell
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." Aristoteles
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"The slowest person who does not lose sight of his goal still walks faster than the one who wanders around without a goal." Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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"If you want to be fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others." African proverb
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"Science fiction like Star Trek is not only good fun but it also serves a serious purpose, that of expanding the human imagination." Stephen Hawking
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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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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible." Alvin Toffler
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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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"I know the secret of making the average American believing anything I want them to. Just let me control television. You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV sets images." Hal Becker
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"The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught, but not educated enough to question what they've been taught." Unbekannter Autor
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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