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Inspirational Albert Camus quote about inner strength and finding happinessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back." Albert Camus
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Inspirational quote by David Bowie about leaving your comfort zone and embracing challengesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting." David Bowie
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Inspirational Erich Fromm quote about beginning a journey through a strange new worldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before." Erich Fromm
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Inspirational Albert Camus quote about inner strength and finding happinessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back." Albert Camus
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Inspirational quote by David Bowie about leaving your comfort zone and embracing challengesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting." David Bowie
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Inspirational Erich Fromm quote about beginning a journey through a strange new worldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before." Erich Fromm
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John Taylor Gatto quote image about success, schooling, and educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn’t true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison." John Taylor Gatto
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Inspirational Napoleon Hill quote about taking control of your life and changing your directionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!" Napoleon Hill
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John Taylor Gatto quote about compulsory schooling and the purpose of educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest." John Taylor Gatto
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Neil Postman quote criticizing textbooks as harmful to education and student learningCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse." Neil Postman
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Neil Postman quote about television, education, sequence, continuity, and thoughtCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself." Neil Postman
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Education research quote by Neil PostmanCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it." Neil Postman
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Quote by Bertrand Russell about educational systems designed to control peopleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Educational systems have been developed not to impart genuine knowledge but to make the people docile to the will of the rulers. Without a sophisticated system of deception in schools, it would be impossible to maintain the appearance of democracy. It is not desired that ordinary citizens think for themselves. Because it is believed that people who think for themselves are difficult to handle. Only the elites are supposed to think. The rest are supposed to obey and follow their leaders, like a herd of mutton. This doctrine has corrupted all state education systems from the ground up, even in democracies." Bertrand Russell
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John Taylor Gatto quote about Socrates and the professionalization of teachingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote image about school, conformity, and submitting to authorityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about school, motivation, and finishing what you startCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point." John Taylor Gatto
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Robert Lawrence Kuhn quote about the scientific method and non-physical theoriesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I like to distinguish between the scientific method, which is applied to all materialistic theories. The scientific method is one of observation or experimentation, repeatability, falsification, the repeatability by different techniques of different labs, or prediction and results. It's a scientific method. I say that if it's a non-physical theory, or the theory has any aspect of non-physicalism to it, it doesn't have to be all, any aspect invalidates, to some degree invalidates, the scientific method as I just described from being applicable. And I think there's a tendency in some theories that have some non-physical aspect to try to show their legitimacy by applying the scientific method... I think that's a false desire, because once you're non-physical you are invalidating, to one degree or another, the scientific method. Maybe not totally, but in some degree." Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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Quote by Rupert Sheldrake about scientific materialism and scientific beliefsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs." Rupert Sheldrake
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Thomas Kuhn quote about paradigm choice, scientific revolutions, and the scientific communityCopyright © 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. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists." Thomas Kuhn
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Thomas Kuhn quote about paradigm shifts and how scientists perceive the worldCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well." Thomas Kuhn
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Thomas Kuhn quote about crises, paradigms, and the rules of normal researchCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance." Thomas Kuhn
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Brock Chisholm quote about truth, morality, and free thoughtCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely." Brock Chisholm
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Quote on psychological compulsion and freedom by Aldous HuxleyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective." Aldous Huxley
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Quote about freedom and tyranny by Friedrich August von HayekCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." Friedrich August von Hayek
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Quotation on censorship by Johann Nepomuk Nestroy about power and freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Censorship is the living confession of the powerful that they can only trample on dumb slaves, but cannot govern free peoples. Censorship is something that stands far beneath the executioner, for the same ray of enlightenment that sixty years ago helped the executioner achieve honesty has recently branded censorship with the stigma of contempt." Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
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Thomas Sowell quote about free speech and criticismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves." Thomas Sowell
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Understanding politics quote by Thomas Sowell about politicians and re-electionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind." Thomas Sowell
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Insightful quote by Hans Herbert von Arnim on the political class and legitimacy of powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The political class is supported by the many-thousand-voiced chorus of those who are committed to it by the already accomplished or still hoped-for awarding of offices and dignities. The proof of deficiencies is made difficult at the outset by the fact that there is an abundance of thought patterns (paradigms), formulas and theories that support the basic ideological thesis of the quasi-automatic functioning of the system. They seek to close the gap between norm and reality not by improving reality, but by interpreting the norm laxly or by obfuscating reality. Serving the cause of legitimizing power despite its democratic shortcomings" Hans Herbert von Arnim
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Carl Sagan quote about the importance of science and technology understanding in democracyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? ... Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along." Carl Sagan
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Quote by George Orwell about the Proles and social control in 1984Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult." George Orwell
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Quote about the ruling elite controlling major institutions in the USA by Steve JacobsonCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in interest and outlook shaping events from invulnerable positions behind the scenes. The creation of the United Nations was a Council project, as well as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank." Steve Jacobson
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Quote by Noam Chomsky about democracy being controlled by the rich and powerfulCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It’s about what you would expect from a bipartisan democracy campaign — it’s an attempt to impose what is called democracy, meaning rule by the rich and the powerful, without interference by the mob but within the framework of formal electoral procedures." Noam Chomsky
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Quote about political opinion by Joost A.M. MeerlooCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles." Joost A.M. Meerloo
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Klaus Kinski quote about acting, money, and choosing film rolesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There isn't one role I'd like to play. There are many and there are none. I've always admitted to being a prostitute. I sell myself for money. I don't have to see myself up on the screen as Napoleon to feel satisfied about a movie. If you pay me a lot of money, I'll be in your film." Klaus Kinski
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James M. Buchanan quote image about rent-seeking and political favorsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking." James M. Buchanan
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James M. Buchanan quote about economic arguments and political implementationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic argument in favor of equalization - and I think there are arguments on both sides - I would still come down in favour of some sort of a scheme on strict economic grounds." James M. Buchanan
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Denis Diderot quote about money, talent, and virtueCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice." Denis Diderot
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