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Brian Tracy quote about how clear goals and big goals fuel achievement and drive successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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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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Brian Tracy quote about how clear goals and big goals fuel achievement and drive successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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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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Stella McCartney quote about women's activewear design, technology, and performanceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I was first drawn to active wear because I enjoy working out, and it's very important in this day in age. I really felt women were getting the tail end of the design in active wear; not getting the technology or design we deserved. It was reserved for men. We were getting the leftover work from the sports design houses." Stella McCartney
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John Taylor Gatto quote about children, education, and the habits taught by large-scale organizationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly." John Taylor Gatto
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Aldous Huxley quote about education, truth, and critical thinkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education." Aldous Huxley
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Thomas Sowell quote about young people and sweeping judgmentsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience." Thomas Sowell
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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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Quote image featuring John Taylor Gatto on academic honors and later successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life." John Taylor Gatto
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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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Denis Diderot quote about acquiring knowledge through observation, reflection, and experimentationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." Denis Diderot
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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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Paul Feyerabend quote about freedom, tradition, and equal access to powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it." Paul Feyerabend
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Gore Vidal quote about the meaning of liberal in political contextCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon." Gore Vidal
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Samuel Adams quote about defending freedom and civil libertiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." Samuel Adams
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Samuel Adams quote about freedom, unity, and the dangers of tyrannyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny." Samuel Adams
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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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Quote by Dr. Angela Merkel about democracy and decisions being made against the majority of GermansCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Almost all of these decisions were made against the majority of Germans. In many cases, the Germans' attitude has only changed in retrospect. I also think it is reasonable for the population to first look at the result of a measure and then form a judgment about it. I believe this is an expression of the primacy of politics. And that should be upheld." Dr. Angela Merkel
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Alice Cooper quote about why politics and rock 'n' roll should not mixCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I don't like to mix politics and rock 'n' roll, i don't look at Bono, Sting and Bruce Springsteen as political. I look at them as being humanitarian. I'll contribute to anything humanitarian. Helping people who can't help themselves. But when musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that's an abuse of power. You're telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you. Rock 'n' roll is about freedom — and that's not freedom." Alice Cooper
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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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Ayn Rand quote about sacrifice, service, slavery, and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand quote about inflation, government monetary policy, and deficit spendingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments." Ayn Rand
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Quote on materialism by Bernardo Kastrup about the failure of human intellect and nature's simplicityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests." Bernardo Kastrup
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Quote about global financial control by Carroll QuigleyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences." Carroll Quigley
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Quote about banks and fiat money by G. Edward GriffinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money." G. Edward Griffin
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Quote by G. Edward Griffin about the Federal Reserve System and its impact on the American peopleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy foreigner who bids up our prices. They do not realize that these groups also are victimized by a monetary system which is constantly being eroded in value by and through the Federal Reserve System." G. Edward Griffin
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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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