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Donald Pleasence quote about the creative process and developing a character for every situationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text." Donald Pleasence
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Sokrates quote about learning through questions and thinking independentlyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself." Sokrates
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Inspirational enthusiasm and success quote graphic by Henry FordCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas." Henry Ford
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Donald Pleasence quote about the creative process and developing a character for every situationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text." Donald Pleasence
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Sokrates quote about learning through questions and thinking independentlyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself." Sokrates
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Inspirational enthusiasm and success quote graphic by Henry FordCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas." Henry Ford
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Happiness and love quote image by Novak DjokovicCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone." Novak Djokovic
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Henry Ford quote image about leadership, hidden talent, and achieving greatnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right." Henry Ford
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Educational reform and imagination quote by Hans-Peter DürrCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"How can we get our imaginations soaring again? We need to change our education system. In my opinion, we need to drastically reduce the curriculum so that young people can experiment with their thinking again." Hans-Peter Dürr
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Emma Goldman quote about education and alienationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other." Emma Goldman
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Quote image featuring Murray Rothbard's views on public schools and educational reformCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents." Murray Rothbard
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Quote by Anita Hofmann about the true purpose of education and citizenshipCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"This is about: What is actually best for children and young people? And how do they get their education and how do they become citizens? Because that is also the goal of our schooling, that I am an educated person who can also fulfill my civic duties and for that I need appropriate behavior and I learn that not only explicitly through knowledge, but also implicitly by practicing a state on a small scale, namely at school." Anita Hofmann
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Thomas Sowell quote about the dangers of educated ignoranceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields." Thomas Sowell
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Erich Fromm quote on thinking, happiness, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Well now, I believe we are much less stupid than it seems. We are trained not to think. Formulas are drilled into us, which we parrot. But I believe that if the desire for true happiness, for true knowledge were to fully awaken among people in society – what the Enlightenment called with Kant's words: Sapere aude! Dare to know! – and not to consume canned wisdom that someone else has cooked and served, and then even experienced oneself as if I had thought such a thing... I believe that tremendous change could be achieved. People are not that stupid at all. But it is dangerous not to be stupid. Because if you are not stupid, you contradict, criticize, express unpopular opinions. And for safety reasons, it is better to appear stupid." Erich Fromm
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Quote by Jacques Martin Barzun about morality and intellectCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect" Jacques Martin Barzun
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Guy Consolmagno quote about the Big Bang theory, creation, science, and religionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"misguided to ask whether the Big Bang theory would provide evidence for or against a scriptural story of Creation; the Big Bang Theory is a scientific theory, concerned with physical causes that are proximate and contingent. And it’s wrong to ask whether a scriptural story of Creation would provide evidence for or against the Big Bang theory; scriptural stories of Creation are concerned with ultimate origins and with humanity’s personal relationship with God. Those are the wrong questions for the tools at hand." Guy Consolmagno
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Quote image about social science and humanities by Allan BloomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not." Allan Bloom
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Thomas Kuhn quote about critical discourse, scientific fields, and moments of crisisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers." Thomas Kuhn
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Thomas Kuhn quote about paradigm choice and the role of scientific communitiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone." Thomas Kuhn
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Thomas Kuhn quote about science and philosophical analysisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers." Thomas Kuhn
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Normal Science quote image by Thomas KuhnCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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""Normal science" means research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice." Thomas Kuhn
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Quote by John Francis Clauser about dangerous corruption of climate science and energy crisisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science." John Francis Clauser
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Ludwig von Mises quote about private property as a foundation of freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted." Ludwig von Mises
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Ludwig von Mises quote about government interference, compulsion, and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom." Ludwig von Mises
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Allan Bloom quote about tyranny, conformity, and the loss of awareness of other possibilitiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside." Allan Bloom
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Brock Chisholm quote about children, free thought, education, and avoiding inherited prejudicesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are." Brock Chisholm
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John Trudell quote about human intelligence, power, and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings." John Trudell
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George Carlin quote about politicians and the public's role in politicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope." George Carlin
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Quote by Wolfgang Reinhard about the symbolic power of elections in democracyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Politicians who want to stay in power have to keep the voters happy, even though the election itself is only symbolic. But it is the central ritual of the democratic theater state. After all, it is no longer about substantive decisions, but only about the confirmation or replacement of political figureheads, who are legitimized by the fact that citizens are allowed to perform this ritual. This symbolically reinforces the fiction of popular sovereignty on which modern constitutional states are founded. In this way, and not through substantive decisions, elections contribute to its stabilization." Wolfgang Reinhard
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Murray Rothbard quote about price controls and health careCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power." Murray Rothbard
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Murray Rothbard quote image about democracy and civic educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group." Murray Rothbard
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Quote by Emma Goldman about the state being the worst enemy and pillar of capitalismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it." Emma Goldman
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George Orwell quote image about doublethink, language distortion, and totalitarianismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink" George Orwell
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Quote by G. Edward Griffin about central banks being cartels with a government facadeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade." G. Edward Griffin
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Milton Friedman quote about free markets and social toleranceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another." Milton Friedman
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Milton Friedman quote about government spending and financial incentivesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you." Milton Friedman
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Harry Edson Browne quote image about individual money use and government spendingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn." Harry Edson Browne
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Quote about healthcare costs and government bureaucracy by Thomas SowellCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." Thomas Sowell
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