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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." Marcus Aurelius
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"What would life be if we didn't have the courage to take risks?" Vincent van Gogh
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"Boldness is the beginning of action, but fortune controls how it ends" Democritus
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"The first step toward all greatness is courage." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one." Mark Twain
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"Ingenious people start great works, diligent people complete them." Leonardo da Vinci
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"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." Zig Ziglar
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"Those who act while others are still talking are a great step ahead in life." John F. Kennedy
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"There are only two mistakes you can make: quitting—or never starting at all." Unbekannt
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"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing." Eva Young
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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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"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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"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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"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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Quote about distortion of worldview in natural science and technology by Prof. Dr. Markus GabrielCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I acquired all my academic titles by believing in a false doctrine. A studied economist understands less about macroeconomics than a cow does about flying, because he first has to dig himself out of a swamp of preconceived opinions and errors in thinking in order to even reach the surface, or to get back to where he was before he let himself be committed to the stupification asylum." Professor Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Berger
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Quote about embracing truth in science by John Frederick William HerschelCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In entering upon any scientific pursuit, one of the student’s first endeavours ought to be, to prepare his mind for the reception of truth, by dismissing, or at least loosening his hold on, all such crude and hastily adopted notions respecting the objects and relations he is about to examine as may tend to embarrass or mislead him.; and to strengthen himself, by something of an effort and a resolve, for the unprejudiced admission of any conclusion which shall appear to be supported by careful observation and logical argument, even should it prove of a nature adverse to notions he may have previously formed for himself, or taken up, without examination, on the credit of others." John Frederick William Herschel
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"You wonder that there are so few followers of the Pythagorean opinion [that the earth moves] while I am astonished that there have been any up to this day who have embraced and followed it. Nor can I ever sufficiently admire the outstanding acumen of those who have taken hold of this opinion and accepted it as true: they have, through sheer force of intellect, done such violence to their own senses as to prefer what reason told them over that which sensible experience plainly showed them to be the contrary. For the arguments against the whirling [the rotation] of the earth we have already examined are very plausible, as we have seen; and the fact that the Ptolemaics and the Aristotelians and all their disciples took them to be conclusive is indeed a strong argument of their effectiveness. But the experiences which overtly contradict the annual movement [the movement of the earth around the sun] are indeed so much greater in their apparent force that, I repeat, there is no limit to my astonishment when I reflect that Aristarchus and Copernicus were able to make reason so conquer sense that in defiance of the latter, the former became mistress of their belief." Salviati
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Quote about Germ Theory by Montague R. LeversonCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The Germ Theory of infectious contagious disease is convenient because it provides what every simplistic view of a problem seeks before all else: a culprit, an invisible hare for the hounds to chase in their costly research labs, universities, hospitals, and drug factories. The fact that the hare can never be caught is the perfect guarantee that their race will never finish, their demands for funding will never cease, and their ability to generate profits for the drug and chemical corporations will continue to grow." Montague R. Leverson
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Quote on mental control and perception by Dr. Tim O’SheaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The shackles of mental control, perceptual filtering and cultural conditioning are harder to throw off today than ever before. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever seen. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our entire consciousness seems to be subtly and relentlessly erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely controlled. It is an exhaustive and endless task to constantly explain to people how most things of their everyday wisdom are scientifically planted in the public consciousness via a thousand media clips." Dr. Tim O’Shea
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"…Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. Scientists fall in line with the dominant power structure. They have to, because the power structure pays the bills. You don’t play ball with the power structure, you don’t get money for research, you don’t get an appointment, you don’t get published, in short you don’t count anymore. You’re out. You might as well be dead." Michael Crichton
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"We had accepted some half truths and had stopped searching for the whole truths. The principal half truths were that medical research had stamped out the great killers of the past – tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia, puerperal sepsis, etc. The data on deaths from tuberculosis show that the mortality rate from this disease has been declining steadily since the middle of the 19th century and was not altered measurably by the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, the advent of the tuberculin test, the appearance of BCG vaccination, the widespread use of mass screening, the intensive anti-tuberculosis campaigns, or the discovery of streptomycin. Similar trends in mortality have been reported with respect to diphtheria, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, pertussis, measles, and many others." Edward Harold Kass
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"I truly see a massive distortion in our current worldview because natural science and technology, represented these days by virology and computer simulations, have taken the former place of religion. In short, essentially at the end of the day, engaging in unfounded metaphysics – but based on facts. Yes, the natural sciences today belong to the standard realm of ideology, and ideology today means that you can lie with facts…" Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel
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"However, the coronavirus seems to have provided the perfect whip to turn responsible citizens into fearful people who allow themselves to be beaten into a climate-friendly future as ‘human material’, as the communists and National Socialists called it." Vera Lengsfeld
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"[...] As a result, these normative changes mean that a group of members of society is gradually excluded from the ‘universe of general obligation’, which continues to apply to the others, those belonging to the majority society, but now becomes exclusive. As I said, this process is the central prerequisite for the emergence of genocidal processes. For exclusion proceeds from the definition that the group to be excluded, and that means each of its members, is a threat to the well-being and ultimately to the existence of the majority society—which then logically sees its salvation in rendering this group, perceived as threatening, harmless and, in the final analysis, destroying it. That is why all known processes of extermination are preceded by a definition of the threatening group, and this definition is followed by an accelerating social, psychological, material, and legal declassification, which increasingly transforms the initially only claimed otherness of the excluded group into a reality shaped and felt by contemporaries. [...]" Harald Welzer
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"In times of war, there is a level of information control in reporting that is abhorrent in the case of traditional wars. In the case of a pandemic, however, one must take less democratic measures from one moment to the next [...] Over the past two years, with the outbreak of the pandemic, we have seen that the way our world is organized is outdated. Two aspects are affected by this: communication and global governance. In terms of communication, we immediately used the term “war” because it is a war, but we have not implemented a communication policy in any country that is appropriate for a war [...] I believe that in this pandemic, or at least in future global health disasters, we need to find a system that preserves freedom of expression but reconciles it with information rationed from above." Mario Monti
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"Spreading fear seems to have become a common means of advancing political interests." Wolfgang Kubicki
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"Essentially, during a pandemic, a benevolent dictatorship is a good way to manage the crisis. Sometimes, centralized decisions need to be implemented" Peter Indra
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"Das ist schrecklich in Österreich. Das ist ein europäisches Problem. Wie sie sich mit Orbans Verrücktheiten rund um die Menschenrechte befasst haben. Wo sind diese Brüsseler Bürokraten jetzt? Den Menschen verbieten auf die Straße zu gehen, das ist Faschismus" Zoran Milanovic
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"It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes." George Orwell
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"If I ever had a son, he should become something prosaic: a lawyer or a pirate." Lord Byron
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"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly." Noam Chomsky
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"With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the trappings of authority, by the control of their perceptions, and by the uncritical acceptance of the experimenter’s definition of the situation, into performing harsh acts. A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority." Stanley Milgram
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"Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense — the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen" William E. Borah
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"To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands." Eric Alterman
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