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"It’s not the size of the first step that matters, but the direction it takes." Unbekannt
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"The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them." Luciano Benetton
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"The aimless person suffers their fate — the purposeful one shapes it." Immanuel Kant
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"The main reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want." T. Harv Eker
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"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." Benjamin E. Mays
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"The ones who change the world are those who swim against the current." Walter Jens
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"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves." Brian Tracy
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"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens." Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!'" Erykah Badu
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"Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious." Walter Lippmann
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." Walter Lippmann
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"You must think that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand. It will not let you fall." Rainer Maria Rilke
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"If someone says, "You can't do that," remember: those are their limits, not yours." Unbekannt
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"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway." Robert John Downey Jr.
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"If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you’re setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time." Chris Austin Hadfield
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Learning never exhausts the mind. Art is never finished, only abandoned. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Water is the driving force of all nature.”" Leonardo da Vinci
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"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." Henry Ford
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"Hoping for change without doing anything about it yourself is like standing at the train station and waiting for a ship." Albert Einstein
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"It must give every serious-minded person pause to reflect that, despite the best healthcare facilities, diseases continue to spread. We have high standards of hygiene that control factors such as diet, water, clothing, everyday items, industry, construction, waste, and climatic influences to prevent harm to health. Its most outstanding achievement is the eradication of epidemics; its most visible failure is the steady rise in disease rates, especially for heart disease and cancer." Dr. med. Heinrich Will
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"If we fail to find any of this—even at the highest energies we can reach—then we’ll have to do some serious rethinking and essentially start over from scratch. Which, of course, is exciting in its own way. Science is always exciting: if you don’t find anything, you simply have to come up with something new. Imagination is always the foundation of science." Wolfram Zeuner
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"If you can’t prove it in an experiment, it’s called a belief." yoice.net / non-profit internet aktivisten
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"I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it – in science – sympathetic vibrations." Erykah Badu
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"Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn." Stephen W. Hawking
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"No plan survives the first contact with the enemy." Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke
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"The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth." Chris Hedges
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"… the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and … the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources." Peter Phillips
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"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." Mark Twain
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"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." Al Franken
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"Imagine the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." Joseph Goebbels
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"That is the secret of propaganda: to completely saturate the person targeted by it with the ideas of propaganda without them even realizing they are being saturated." Joseph Goebbels
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"The most brilliant propaganda technique will have no success if a basic principle is not constantly observed – it must be limited to a few points and repeated over and over again." Joseph Goebbels
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"The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you’ve got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus." Noam Chomsky
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"This is the plague of our time: the mad lead the blind." William Shakespeare
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"The commercial press, in another of its brazen hypocritical proclamations, points with pride to the fact that it is free because it upholds a free system in which there are two political parties. But there is probably not one member of the A.N.P.A. [American Newspaper Publishers Association] who does not know that the Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and that the same persons frequently subscribe funds to both major parties … They know this very well, and they also know very well that the press has never given honest news coverage to the formation, platform and campaign of any third party which was independent enough not to feed on the same money. George Seldes, 1943" George Seldes
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"And who are these agents? They are for the most part, Jesuits, an ecclesiastical order proverbial through the world for cunning, duplicity, and total want of moral principle; an order so skilled in all the arts of deception that even in Catholic countries, in Italy itself, it became intolerable, and the people required its suppression." Samuel Morse