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Elon Musk quote about the importance of personality and character alongside talentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain." Elon Musk
Quote image featuring Robert A. Heinlein on folly, experience, and learning from mistakesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig." Robert A. Heinlein
Inspirational quote image featuring Ralph Waldo Trine and his words about miracles and true identityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A miracle is nothing more nor less than this One who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the allpervading Wisdom and Power, thus makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him." Ralph Waldo Trine
Samuel Adams quote about liberty and equality in the Declaration of IndependenceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that 'all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' This declaration of Independence was received and ratified by all the States in the Union & has never been disannuled. May we not from hence conclude, that the doctrine of Liberty and Equality is an article in the political creed of the United States." Samuel Adams
Inspirational quote image by Leo Tolstoi about serving God and personal responsibilityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create." Leo Tolstoi
Quote image attributed to Ivan Illich about telephone communication and privacyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The telephone lets anybody say what he wants to the person of his choice; he can conduct business, express love, or pick a quarrel. It is impossible for bureaucrats to define what people say to each other on the phone, even though they can interfere with - or protect - the privacy of their exchange." Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich quote about schools, compulsory education, and self-directed learningCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before." Ivan Illich