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Henry Ford quote image about self-confidence and living a great lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To live a great life, you must believe in yourself. Let these quotes help you to create a mindset for believing in yourself... Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right." Henry Ford
Henry Ford quote image about self-confidence and living a great lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To live a great life, you must believe in yourself. Let these quotes help you to create a mindset for believing in yourself... Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right." Henry Ford
Children and freedom quote image featuring Khalil GibranCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday." Khalil Gibran
John Lennon quote about belief, fantasy, dreams, and realityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?" John Lennon
Ivan Illich quote about college and university systemsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The college and university systems, at least, have become like television. There's a bit of this and a bit of that and some compulsory program with its components connected in a way that only a planner could understand." Ivan Illich
Noam Chomsky quote image about education, independence, and institutional conformityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions." Noam Chomsky
John Taylor Gatto quote about government schooling, families, religion, class division, wealth, and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community." John Taylor Gatto
Samuel Adams quote about freedom, knowledge, and virtueCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders." Samuel Adams
Inspirational life and wisdom quote by SokratesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery." Sokrates
Thomas Kuhn quote about paradigm shifts and scientific revolutionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable." Thomas Kuhn
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
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
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
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
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
Harry Edson Browne quote about freedom and the growth of governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free." Harry Edson Browne
Murray Rothbard quote about the red thread of governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If we look around, then, at the crucial problem areas of our society - the areas of crisis and failure - we find in each and every case a “red thread” marking and uniting them all: the thread of government. In every one of these cases, government either has totally run or heavily influenced the activity." Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard quote about liberty, political action, and rolling back the stateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State." Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard quote about pollution, private property, government, and technologyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation." Murray Rothbard
Harry Browne quote about school vouchers and government control of private schoolsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools." Harry Browne
Neil Postman quote image about society's growing obsession with entertainmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death." Neil Postman
Charles Wright Mills quote about power, wealth, celebrity, and access to major institutionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions." Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Ludwig von Mises about artificial booms and economic crisesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit expansion by the banks. They can thus create an artificial boom and the appearance of prosperity. But such a boom is bound to collapse soon or late and to bring about a depression." Ludwig von Mises
Albert Jay Nock quote image about economic and political meansCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means." Albert Jay Nock