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Inspirational Thích Nhất Hạnh quote about mindfulness, kindness, and the light we shareCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment." Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Russell Simmons quote about hard work, ideas, and achieving successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success." Russell Simmons
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Courage and individuality quote by Lothar ZenettCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Dare what no one dares, speak what no one says, think what no one thinks, do what no one does. If no one says yes, you should say yes; if no one says no, then say no. When everyone doubts, dare to believe; when everyone joins in, stand alone. Where everyone praises, have doubts; where everyone mocks, do not mock; where everyone is stingy, dare to give; where all is dark, bring light!" Lothar Zenett
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Inspirational Thích Nhất Hạnh quote about mindfulness, kindness, and the light we shareCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them. We are ...transforming and continuing in a different form at every moment." Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Russell Simmons quote about hard work, ideas, and achieving successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success." Russell Simmons
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Courage and individuality quote by Lothar ZenettCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Dare what no one dares, speak what no one says, think what no one thinks, do what no one does. If no one says yes, you should say yes; if no one says no, then say no. When everyone doubts, dare to believe; when everyone joins in, stand alone. Where everyone praises, have doubts; where everyone mocks, do not mock; where everyone is stingy, dare to give; where all is dark, bring light!" Lothar Zenett
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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 quote image attributed to C. S. LewisCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." C. S. Lewis
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John Dewey quote about education as the community's moral dutyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move." John Dewey
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Eisenhower quote about supporting and encouraging teachersCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens." Eisenhower
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Aldous Huxley quote about education, reading, and informationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style." Aldous Huxley
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H. P. Lovecraft quote about friendship, trust, and loyaltyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting." H. P. Lovecraft
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Inspirational quote by Julian Assange about courage, justice, and acting against injusticeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love. In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice. If we have brains or courage, then we are blessed and called on not to frit these qualities away, standing agape at the ideas of others, winning pissing contests, improving the efficiencies of the neocorporate state, or immersing ourselves in obscuranta, but rather to prove the vigor of our talents against the strongest opponents of love we can find. If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whos hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes. The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them." Julian Assange
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Quote by Neale Donald Walsch about quantum physics, observation, and different perceptions of truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see." Neale Donald Walsch
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Neil Postman quote about technological progress, invention, and the consumer perspectiveCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets." Neil Postman
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Thomas Kuhn quote about paradigm shifts, scientific progress, and truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything." Thomas Kuhn
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Thomas Kuhn quote about scientific progress and the advantages of later scientific theoriesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress." Thomas Kuhn
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Quote by Yuval Noah Harari about truth, power, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Truth was never the highest priority of human society. It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole — because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. If you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind — science and the scientific community, and religion and churches — neither of them has truth as their chief value. For individuals, yes. But as institutions, no. The chief value of science is power. The chief value of religion is order — organization. Religion is all about maintaining order in society, and science is mainly about gaining power." Yuval Noah Harari
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Neil Postman quote about the scientific method, learning, perspective, balance, and humilityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning." Neil Postman
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Fred Hoyle quote about Darwin, William Paley, and scientific explanationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific." Fred Hoyle
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Samuel Adams quote about virtue, liberty, and choosing wise and virtuous leadersCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." Samuel Adams
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Quote image featuring Samuel Adams on freedom, tyranny, and moralityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice." Samuel Adams
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Ayn Rand quote about the Constitution protecting citizens from government powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government." Ayn Rand
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Albert Jay Nock quote about political organization and governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve." Albert Jay Nock
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe quote about voting rights and the concerns of childrenCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos." Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe quote about financing state activities through taxesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'" Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe quote about government as a territorial monopoly and taxationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service." Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Thomas Kuhn quote about political revolutions and the temporary loss of institutional governanceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all" Thomas Kuhn
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Chris Hedges quote image about media reality, inequality, corporate malfeasance, and social debatesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters." Chris Hedges
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Aldous Huxley quote about money, candidates, political principles, and image-driven politicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter." Aldous Huxley
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Erich Fromm quote about love, human connection, and political engagementCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities." Erich Fromm
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Quote by Smedley Darlington Butler revealing the harsh truth about war and profiteeringCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure". Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month! All that they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill...and be killed”" Smedley Darlington Butler
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Quote by Markus Krall explaining the dangers of Modern Monetary Theory and money creationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There was this wonderful book called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and there's a chapter in it where there's a planet where another planet sends all of its lunatics to do no more damage at home. And on this lunatic planet, the Keynesian economists have come to power and decided that they can abolish the scarcity of goods by abolishing the scarcity of money. They then declared the leaves of trees to be money, which of course immediately led to hyperinflation. This was then countered with a forest defoliation program. And let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, some of these "foliage faction" have made it here. They're sitting in the central banking worlds today, in the Governing Council of the ECB and at the Fed, and they're telling us with their Modern Monetary Theory that it's possible in all seriousness to overcome the scarcity of goods by abolishing the scarcity of money and being able to buy everything, anything, everything, if we just print enough money." Markus Krall
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Murray Rothbard quote about government money creation and inflationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy." Murray Rothbard
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Inspirational quote image about markets, freedom, and individual self-interest by Harry BrowneCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion." Harry Browne
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Quote by John Adams about the cause of America's troubles being ignorance about coin credit and circulationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All the Perplexities, Confusions and Distresses in America arise not from defects in their Constitutions or Confederation, not from a want of Honour or Virtue, So much as from downright Ignorance of the Nature of Coin, Credit and Circulation." John Adams
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Eduardo Galeano quote about trade wars and material interestsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars." Eduardo Galeano
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