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"No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part." Tiger Woods
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"To achieve the impossible, you first have to try the absurd." Fernando Pessoa
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"If you refuse to take responsibility for your defeats, you will not be responsible for your victories either." Antoine de Saint-Exupére
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"Enough complaining! It’s time to do something." Harvey Reginald Specter
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"Success is not about always winning, but never being discouraged." Napoleon Bonaparte
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"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and a willingness to learn from mistakes." Colin Powell
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"The art is to get up one more time than you are knocked down" Winston Churchill
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"Those who want something find ways; those who don’t find excuses." Willy Meurer
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"Change does not happen by waiting for other people or another time. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the change we long for." Barack Obama
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"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results." Albert Einstein
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"Everything Great in the world happens only because one does more than he has to" Albert Einstein
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"If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too big." Jeffrey Preston „Jeff“ Bezos
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"The reward for your work isn't as important as what you achieve along the way." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Whoever stops wanting to become better, stops being good." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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"Don’t talk, do it. Don’t explain, show. Don’t promise, prove it." Unknown
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"He who wants to build tall towers must spend a long time on the foundations." Anton Bruckner
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"Do not lament what cannot be changed, but change what is to be lamented." William Shakespeare
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"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life." Mark Twain
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"Innovation stagnation is not an excuse, it’s a diagnosis." Sabine Hauswirth
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"I have also developed acting skills over the course of my life, and sometimes with little knowledge, I still put on quite a show." Helmut Schmidt
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"Actors and politicians have much in common…We want to play leading roles, we cultivate the art of deception, and we have a strong human charisma… (coughs)" Victor Dornberger
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"That the government represents the people is a fiction, a lie." Leo Tolstoi
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"Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government." Walter Lippmann
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"We are dealing with a problem in which deception has become organized and powerful; where truth is poisoned at its source; where the skills of the cleverest minds are used to mislead a bewildered people." Walter Lippmann
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"Wir leben in einem Zeitalter der Massenverblödung, besonders der medialen Massenverblödung.[....] Wenn Sie sich einmal anschauen, wie einseitig die hiesigen Medien, von TAZ bis Welt, über die Ereignisse in der Ukraine berichten, dann kann man wirklich von einer Desinformation im großen Stil berichten, flankiert von den technischen Möglichkeiten des digitalen Zeitalters, dann kann man nur feststellen, die Globalisierung hat in der Medienwelt zu einer betrüblichen Provinzialisierung geführt." Peter Scholl-Latour
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"We are governed by limited people, whom limited people help to achieve majorities, with whom they make policies for limited people. This is the logic inherent in democracies, because due to the fundamental structure of the state form, in the end the dumbest prevail." Ramin Peymani
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"There is a tendency not to tell people the plain truth anymore because of fear of their reaction." Michael Kretschmer
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"All parties in industrialized countries, whether right or left, will adopt the CO2 global warming theory. This is a unique opportunity to tax the air we breathe. Because they supposedly save the world from a heat death, politicians even receive applause for it. No party will resist this temptation." Nigel Calder
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"This is going to be an unpopular truth, especially in the extremely delusional and deceived world we now live in. But the reality is this: none of what is going on outside is getting better. Nothing improves. Everything in our world feels fake. Our food is fake. Our news is fake. Our politicians are fake. Our history is fake. Even our financial system feels fake. And the people on our TV screens, on our phone screens — they’re lying to us, because everything is like a scripted movie. If you want to believe the absolute garbage that is being spoon-fed to us, then that is your prerogative. But I would hope that by now — five years into this very odd new world, this strange reality we’re living in — most of us have started to recognize that something deeper is going on. Something more sinister. Something more… spiritual, even, behind the scenes. I’ve reached a point where I literally don’t believe anything I see anymore. Nothing. Because after the last five years — maybe a bit more — it’s become clear to me that narratives are being pushed. Distractions are being manufactured. And in the end… we are watching a movie." ashleyhays2.0
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"Soon the public will be unable to argue or think for themselves. They will only be able to parrot the information they received in last night's news." Zbigniew Brzezinski