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Quote on complacency and life by Benjamin E. MaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." Benjamin E. Mays
Quote about hard work in tennis by Roger FedererCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come." Roger Federer
Elon Musk quote about the absurdity and excitement of having a car in spaceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I think it looks so ridiculous and impossible, you can tell it's real because it looks so fake, honestly. We'd have way better CGI if it was fake. The colors all look kind of weird in space. There's no atmospheric occlusion; everything's too crisp. It's just literally a normal car in space — I kind of like the absurdity of that, it's kind of silly and fun, but I think that silly, fun things are important … I think the imagery of it is something that's going to get people excited around the world, and it's still tripping me out. I'm tripping balls here." Elon Musk
Quote about self-discovery and insight by Hermann HesseCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves." Hermann Hesse
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche about nihilism and the future of European cultureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism […] For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect." Friedrich Nietzsche
Astronomers surprised by JWST images, quote by Eric J. LernerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To most professional astronomers and cosmologists, they [die JWST-Bilder] are also extremely surprising—not at all what was predicted by theory. […] One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: ‘Panic!’" Eric J. Lerner
Quote by Florian Post criticizing Federal Constitutional Court delayCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is outrageous how the Federal Constitutional Court judges are delaying the urgent motion, while the federal government even wants to extend the highly controversial ‘federal emergency brake’. The Karlsruhe court is thus acting as a political accomplice instead of fulfilling its supervisory duty. This creates the terrible impression of conformity." Florian Post
Quotation by Franz Oppenheimer about the state's nature as a tool of social dominationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The state is, by its very nature and essence, a social institution imposed by a victorious group of people on a defeated group of people for the sole purpose of regulating the rule of the former over the latter and securing it against internal uprisings and external attacks. And this rule has no other ultimate purpose than the economic exploitation of the defeated by the victors." Franz Oppenheimer
Quote by Marx and Engels about the ruling class and ruling ideasCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas in every epoch, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has at its disposal the means of material production has at the same time at its disposal the means of intellectual production, so that, on average, the thoughts of those who lack the means of intellectual production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the ruling material conditions, the ruling material conditions conceived as ideas; that is, the conditions that make one class the ruling class, the ideas of its rule." Marx/Engels