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"Those who fight may lose. Those who don't fight have already lost." Bertolt Brecht
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"You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win" Ted Turner
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"Obstacles and difficulties are the steps on which we climb higher." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Customer feedback is sometimes painful - but always good." Rolf Hansen
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"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." Bill Gates
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"Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed." John D. Rockefeller
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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to achieve the great" John D. Rockefeller
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"For the possible to come into being, the impossible must be attempted again and again." Hermann Hesse
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"Our greatest glory is not to never fall, but to get up again every time" Nelson Mandela
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"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." Franz von Assisi
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"The wind is never your enemy. It’s either your friend or your coach." Unbekannt
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"Do it today! Don't wait for the perfect moment – it will never come." Unbekannt
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"The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition." John D. Rockefeller
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"There are more people who surrender, than those who fail." Henry Ford
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"Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage." Napoleon Hill
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"Most failures happen just before the goal is reached." Thomas Alva Edison
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"With diligence, courage, and firm determination, every wish can eventually be fulfilled." Novalis
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"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." Confucius
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"We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude." Thomas S. Monson
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"You never create change by fighting what already exists. To change something, you build new models that make the old obsolete" Buckminster Fuller
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Even countries that were once more prosperous than their neighbors have found themselves much poorer than their neighbors after just one generation of socialistic policies." Thomas Sowell
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"Inflation does not come upon us as a curse or as a tragic fate; it is always caused by reckless or even criminal policies." Ludwig Erhard
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"At the end of the day, we know much less about the interior of the Earth than we do about the surface of the Moon or Mars." Harald Lesch
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"A driving drum rhythm in excess of three to four beats per second will put the brain into a state of stress, regardless if the listener likes or dislikes the music. And when the brain is in this stressful state, it will release opioids—a group of natural hormones that function like morphine—to help return itself to normal equilibrium and sense of well-being. These natural opioids, if experienced often enough, can be addicting, creating in the listener the continual desire for that ‘high’ somewhat like the high runners experience." Dr. Daniel und Bernadette Skubik
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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
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"The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness." Ralph Waldo Trine
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"Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces." Paul Claudel
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"If it is claimed that a substance has no side effects, then there is a strong suspicion that it does not have any principal effect." Gustav Kuschinsky
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"We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food." Cesario Estrada Chávez
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"Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy." Thomas Colin Campbell
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"In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific." George Bernard Shaw
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"The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth." Bill Clinton
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"Take away justice, and what is a state but a large band of robbers?" Augustinus von Hippo
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"A free people must not only be armed and disciplined. They should also be sufficiently equipped with weapons and ammunition to defend their independence at any time against anyone who attempts to abuse them. This includes, in particular, their own government." George Washington
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"There is no way to prevent the final collapse of a boom generated by credit expansion. The only alternative is either an earlier crisis resulting from the voluntary termination of credit expansion, or a later, final, and total catastrophe for the currency system involved." Ludwig von Mises
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"The unvaccinated are serving as scapegoats for the failure of vaccination, which was proclaimed as a panacea for Covid. Those who have been vaccinated cannot admit that they have been deceived—and are venting their frustration in the form of totalitarian demands on the unvaccinated." Bernhard Zimniok
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"No one can say at the moment what lies ahead. The only thing that can be said with certainty is that it is better to be vaccinated. It is even better to have had a booster shot." Christian Drosten
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"The FDA receives 45% of its annual budget from the pharmaceutical industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) gets roughly 50% of its budget from private sources, including Big Pharma and its allied foundations. And the CDC, frankly, is a vaccine company; it owns 56 vaccine patents and buys and (very profitably) distributes $4.6 billion in vaccines annually through the Vaccines for Children program, which represents over 40% of its total budget." Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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"One of the horrors of democracy is that every idiot can invoke it when it suits their interests." Wiglaf Droste
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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you get to vote before you obey orders." Charles Bukowski
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"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." Ayn Rand
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"The great cease to rule when the small cease to crawl" Friedrich Schiller
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"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it." Aldous Huxley