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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
Inspirational quote about Karl Marx by Henry HazlittCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity." Henry Hazlitt
Quote about the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in science by Michio KakuCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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
Quote by Pope Pius XII on science, creation, and the existence of GodCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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
Neil deGrasse Tyson quote on science and guidance beyond scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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
Quote by Christian Drosten explaining why isolating SARS-CoV-2 virus is unique and challengingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We also tried this for a long time, to isolate viruses in cell cultures. We never succeeded. That's how it is for many labs around the world that have tried. Zhengli Shi is actually the only lab back in Wuhan that managed to do that, to isolate a virus for once.[....] I know Zhengli Shi used the ones in the lab for that as well. Here you have to say, when you do this, practically the first thing that happens with the SARS-2 virus is that this furin site in the virus is destroyed. So when we isolate SARS-2 virus in Vero cells from patients, that furin site goes away immediately because that's a selection disadvantage for the virus in cell culture." Christian Drosten
Quote about tyranny through religion and science by Clive Staples LewisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I do not like the pretensions of Government -- the grounds on which it demands my obedience -- to be pitched too high. I don't like the medicine-man's magical pretensions nor the Bourbon's Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet's Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands 'Thus saith the Lord', it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled." Clive Staples Lewis
Dr Mike Yeadon discusses the existence of viruses focusing on SARS-CoV-2Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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
Quote about the fatal attraction of government by Thomas SowellCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others." Thomas Sowell
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
Quote about the mind and totalitarianism by Joost A.M. MeerlooCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent. In the totalitarian regime the doubting, inquisitive, and imaginative mind has to be suppressed. The totalitarian slave is only allowed to memorize, to salivate when the bell rings." Joost A.M. Meerloo
Quote by John Holdren on global population control and planetary regimeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A planetary regime might be given the authority to determine the optimal population for the world as a whole and for each region, and to allocate shares to various countries within their regional boundaries. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the regime would have some power to enforce agreed limits." John Holdren
Quote on ethical risks of propaganda in education by Edward BernaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse." Edward Bernays
Quote on totalitarianism and science by Mattias DesmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As Hannah Arendt states, totalitarianism is ultimately the logical extension of a generalized obsession with science, the belief in an artificially created paradise: “Science [has become] an idol that will magically cure the evils of existence and transform the nature of man.”" Mattias Desmet
Inspirational quote by Julian Huxley about world government and eugenicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The implications of transferring full sovereignty from individual nations to a world organization. Political unity in some form of world government will be necessary. Even if... any radical eugenic policy will be politically and psychologically impossible for many years, one must proceed with utmost care and inform the public about the issues at stake, so that much of what is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable." Julian Huxley
Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon about government control and its impact on individualsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Quote on political powerlessness of the majority by Prof. Rainer MausfeldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"70% of the population — namely the lower 70% on the income and wealth scale — have absolutely no influence on political decisions. Yes, it is no wonder that the population sinks into apathy and lethargy and then seeks refuge in some political positions with an ugly face, hoping that through them they can regain some influence at all." Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
Quote by James Abram Garfield about control of money and its impact on industry and commerceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate." James Abram Garfield
Quote by Henry Hazlitt about inflation and its unavoidable economic consequencesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences." Henry Hazlitt
Quote by Curtis Dall revealing the hidden influences behind FDR's policies and the One World Government controlCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people, and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support. The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank." Curtis Dall
Quote by Edward Bernays about American motion picture as a carrier of propagandaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment." Edward Bernays
Quote by Thomas Sowell about white slaves in North Africa and blacks in the United StatesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States." Thomas Sowell
Quote about the emotional power and complexity of music by Dr. Howard HansonCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Music is a curiously subtle art with innumerable, varying emotional connotations. It is made up of many ingredients and according to the proportions of those components, it be soothing or invigorating, ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has the powers for evil as well as good." Dr. Howard Hanson
Quote by Peter Schiff about incompetency of economists in central banks, government, universities, and investment banksCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Soon investors will realize that the most incompetent economists in the world work for central banks. The second most incompetent economists work for government. The third most incompetent work for major universities and the forth most incompetent work for large investment banks." Peter Schiff
Quote by Eustace Clarence Mullins about money trust and power in the United StatesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Senator LaFollette publicly charged that a money trust of fifty men controlled the United States. George F. Baker, partner of J.P. Morgan, on being queried by reporters as to the truth of the charge, replied that it was absolutely in error. He said that he knew from personal knowledge that not more than eight men ran this country." Eustace Clarence Mullins
Quote by Jordan Maxwell about the true nature of banks, governments, police, and educational institutionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Nothing in this world operates the way you think it does. Banks do not loan money, governments are not empowered to protect you, the police department is not there to serve you, institutions of higher learning, colleges and educational institutes, are not there to educate you. The entire superstructure of civilization in the Western world is a combination of brilliantly put together and planned, well-planned, schemes to direct the minds of the people in such a way as to serve their masters." Jordan Maxwell