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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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"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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"You can't overtake someone if you're walking in their footsteps." Francois Truffaut
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." Muhammad Ali
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"The things you did wrong are not regretted as much as the things you never even tried." Unbekannt
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"Better to take a risk than to regret forever not having dared." Unbekannt
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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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"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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"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." Bill Gates
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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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"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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"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
Moon Landing is the adult version of Santa Claus quote by David McGowanCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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
Quote about global warming by David James BellamyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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
Quote by Graham Hancock about society living in amnesia and unconsciousnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions." Graham Hancock
A thoughtful quote on scientific knowledge by Karl Jaspers highlighting the importance of knowing one's limits and self-criticismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To be scientific, that is to know what one knows and what one does not know; unscientific is dogmatic knowledge. To be scientific is to know with reasons; to accept ready-made opinions is unscientific. Scientific is the knowledge with the consciousness of the respectively determined limits of the knowledge; unscientific is all total knowledge, as if one knew in the whole. Scientific is boundless criticism and self-criticism, the advancing questioning; unscientific is the concern that doubt could paralyze. Scientific is the methodical course, which step by step on the ground of experience penetrates to the decision; unscientific is the play of multiple opinions and possibilities and the murmuring." Karl Jaspers
Quote on activating collective consciousness and intellectual freedom by MOYO-FilmCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Activating collective consciousness is probably one of the most difficult tasks to attempt because people are largely unaware of the extent to which their thinking is governed by tacit rules and predetermined as given, assumed notions that, because they appear as self-evident truth, render ideology invisible. Truly unrestricted intellectual debate feels threatening because it strives to break out of this cognitive cage. Worse, this cage is so insidious that it influences even those who are already outside the mainstream. People are rarely, if ever, persuaded by argument. Those who adopt dissenting opinions do so ,because they were already naturally predisposed to do so and events have brought about a process by which they have become more true to themselves." MOYO-Film
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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
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"The other side may have more money, more possessions, and all the weapons in the world. But their power is based neither on their money, nor on their possessions, nor on their weapons, but solely on one factor, and that is the ignorance of the majority of people." Ernst Wolff
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"The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government." Avro Manhattan
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"The war [i.e., the American Civil War of 1861-1865] would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits." Abraham Lincoln
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"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan
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"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe, that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price." Ronald Reagan
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"…life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies…Because the regime is captive to its own lies it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics." Vaclav Havel
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"To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, “by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.” Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it’s benefits, than is done by it’s abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables. General facts may indeed be collected from them, such as that Europe is now at war, that Bonaparte has been a successful warrior, that he has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, &c., &c.; but no details can be relied on. I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." Thomas Jefferson
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"If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized… If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance – you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest." Ian Watson
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"…In [Heinrich] Himmler [who would become head of the Nazi SS] I see our Ignatius de Loyola [Ed. Note: the founder of the Jesuit Order]." Adolf Hitler
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"The mRNA vaccines are an example of cell and gene therapy. If we had conducted a public survey two years ago and asked who would be willing to undergo gene or cell therapy and have it injected into their body, 95 percent of people would probably have refused. This pandemic has opened many people's eyes to innovations in a way that was not possible before." Stefan Oelrich