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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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"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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"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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"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
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell
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"A planetary regime might be given the authority to determine the optimal population for the world as a whole and for each region, and to allocate shares to various countries within their regional boundaries. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the regime would have some power to enforce agreed limits." John Holdren
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"In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse." Edward Bernays
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"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." Henry Louis Mencken
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"We live in an era where foolishness no longer hides, but is rewarded, applauded, and sold as success." Unbekannt
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"We can look anywhere we want, in all Western countries, whether in America or Europe, fascists are gaining more and more power (and the left helps them) and are turning countries into surveillance and police states. Today's fascism outwardly has nothing to do with the past. No uniforms, goose steps, or raised salutes. No, it is modern, cleverly packaged, and sold with PR." Umberto Eco
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"We must be especially careful in the investigations, because Mr. Reichelt is truly the last and only journalist in Germany who still bravely stands up against the new authoritarian state, the GDR" Mathias Döpfner
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"70% of the population — namely the lower 70% on the income and wealth scale — have absolutely no influence on political decisions. Yes, it is no wonder that the population sinks into apathy and lethargy and then seeks refuge in some political positions with an ugly face, hoping that through them they can regain some influence at all." Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
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"No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce." Thomas Sowell
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"The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about." Walter Lippmann