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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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"Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or the present will miss the future" John F. Kennedy
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"Change is necessary like the renewal of the leaves in spring" Vincent van Gogh
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"Don't go where the puck is. Go where the puck will be." Wayne Gretzky
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"By stumbling, one sometimes moves forward—one must simply not fall and remain lying there." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Happiness comes to those who expect it. They just have to keep the doors open" Thomas Mann
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"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Jean Paul
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"When the winds of change blow, some build walls and others build windmills." Chinesisches Sprichwort
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"People always say that time changes things. But you actually have to change them yourself" Andy Warhol
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"You have to pray for miracles, but you have to work for change" Thomas von Aquin
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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 can build something beautiful even from stones that are put in your way" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"You can take everything from a person. Everything except the last human freedom: the freedom to choose your own attitude and your own path, no matter how hard the external circumstances may be" Viktor Frankl
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"Two paths presented themselves to me in the forest and I took the one that was less traveled - and that changed my life" Walt Whitman
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"Those who are unwilling to change will also lose what they wish to preserve." Gustav Heinemann
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"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance." Harrison Ford
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"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things." Barack Obama
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
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"If you want to change something, start with the person you see in the mirror every morning." Unbekannt
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"You can't overtake someone if you're walking in their footsteps." Francois Truffaut
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"We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality." George Bernard Shaw
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"We’ve known for a long time gravity doesn’t exist, it’s time to yell it." Erik Verlinde
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"We may not be able to demonstrate sufficient efficacy or safety of our COVID-19 vaccine and/or variant-specific formulations to obtain permanent regulatory approval in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, or other countries where it has been authorized for emergency use or granted conditional marketing approval. Significant adverse events may occur during our clinical trials or even after receiving regulatory approval, which could delay or terminate clinical trials, delay or prevent regulatory approval or market acceptance of any of our product candidates." BioNTech
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"Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more." Albert Einstein
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"Whilst we sit drinking our cup of tea or coffee the world is supposedly rotating at 1,039 mph at the equator, whizzing around the Sun at 66,500 mph, hurtling towards Lyra at 20,000 mph, revolving around the centre of the 'Milky Way' at 500,000 mph and merrily moving at God knows what velocity as a consequence of the 'Big Bong.' And not even a hint of a ripple on the surface of our tea, yet tap the table lightly with your finger and ... !" Neville T. Jones
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"If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat-diseased tissue-rather than being the cause of dead tissue. In other words, mosquitoes seek the stagnant water, but do not cause the pool to become stagnant." Dr. Rudolph Virchow
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""[…]that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it."" Isaac Newton
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"[The Moon Landing] is essentially the adult version of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. What primarily motivates them is fear. But it is not the lie itself that scares people; it is what that lie says about the world around us and how it really functions. For if NASA was able to pull off such an outrageous hoax before the entire world, and then keep that lie in place for four decades, what does that say about the control of the information we receive? What does that say about the media, and the scientific community, and the educational community, and all the other institutions we depend on to tell us the truth? What does that say about the very nature of the world we live in?" David McGowan
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"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration." Thomas Alva Edison
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"Global warming is part of a natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist." David James Bellamy
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"Let us not forget that the beginning of Nazi rule was not marked by Auschwitz, but by the exclusion of people who were considered disruptive or harmful." André Heller
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"Although people initially submit under coercion and force, those who come after them obey without regret and willingly do what their predecessors did because they had to. That is why men who are born under the yoke and then raised and brought up in slavery are content to live in their original circumstances without further effort, unaware of any other state or right, and considering the state into which they were born to be entirely natural. ... the powerful influence of custom is in no way more compelling than in this, namely, the habituation to submission." Étienne de La Boétie
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"What they call ‘public opinion’ is media opinion: an opinion created by education and the media." José Luis Sampedro
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"Politicians seem to be less bothered by corruption itself than by its exposure in the media." Markus M. Ronner
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"Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They’ll only be able to parrot the information they’ve been given on the previous night’s news." Zbigniew Brzezinski
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"As someone who is unvaccinated, I see not having to go to the theater, cinema, or museum as a clear improvement in my quality of life. I don't need restaurants either; I prefer to eat meat salad straight from the cup while watching Netflix anyway." Harald Schmidt
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"I am waiting for a classic so-called inactivated vaccine, which I would definitely get vaccinated with. I find the pressure currently being exerted on the unvaccinated unspeakable and incompatible with a free society. At most, the unvaccinated endanger themselves and other unvaccinated people. A society that treats unvaccinated people like pariahs would soon have to ban smoking and alcohol consumption, not to mention dangerous hobbies such as climbing or skydiving. That is the path to a health dictatorship, which we will hopefully never become." Sahra Wagenknecht
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"Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is governed?" Julius III.
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"The moment of choice and decision comes for everyone: whether to live their own life, a deeply personal life in its fullest measure, or to settle for that false, shallow, degrading existence that the hypocrisy of the world demands of them." Oscar Wilde
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"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‚righteous indignation‘ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." Aldous Huxley
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"Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few." Aldous Huxley
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"This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few." Aldous Huxley