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Henry Ford quote about enthusiasm, accomplishment, and progressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." Henry Ford
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Ludwig von Mises quote about genius, creativity, and self-made thinkersCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made." Ludwig von Mises
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Alan Kay quote about creativity, context, surprise, science, and artCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality." Alan Kay
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Ralph Waldo Trine quote about infinite power, abundance, and attracting desired thingsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"He who lives in the realization of his oneness with this Infinite Power becomes a magnet to attract to himself a continual supply of whatsoever things he desires. ... The one who is truly wise, and who uses the forces and powers with which they are endowed, to them the great universe always opens her treasure house." Ralph Waldo Trine
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Henry Ford quote about enthusiasm, accomplishment, and progressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis." Henry Ford
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Ludwig von Mises quote about genius, creativity, and self-made thinkersCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made." Ludwig von Mises
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Alan Kay quote about creativity, context, surprise, science, and artCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality." Alan Kay
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Ralph Waldo Trine quote about infinite power, abundance, and attracting desired thingsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"He who lives in the realization of his oneness with this Infinite Power becomes a magnet to attract to himself a continual supply of whatsoever things he desires. ... The one who is truly wise, and who uses the forces and powers with which they are endowed, to them the great universe always opens her treasure house." Ralph Waldo Trine
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Chris Hedges quote about success, obedience, authority, and educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer." Chris Hedges
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Quote by Benedikt Lux about success in reforming Berlin's security agenciesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Measured against what had gone before, we achieved a huge success. We replaced the entire leadership of almost all of Berlin's security agencies and brought in some pretty good people. In the fire department, the police, the public prosecutor's office and also the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. I very much hope that this will have a noticeable effect in the future." Benedikt Lux
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Quote image featuring John Taylor Gatto on academic honors and later successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about schooling, exceptional talent, and unconventional educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about schooling and indoctrinationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Looking back on a 30-year teaching career full of rewards and prizes, somehow I can't completely believe that I spent my time on earth institutionalized; I can't believe that centralized schooling is allowed to exist at all as a gigantic indoctrination and sorting machine, robbing people of their children. Did it really happen? Was this my life? God help me." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about compulsory schooling and self-relianceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about education, individuality, and living with purposeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die." John Taylor Gatto
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Neil Postman quote about school, socialization, citizenship, and being part of a groupCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group." Neil Postman
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Thomas Sowell quote about the dangers of educated ignoranceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields." Thomas Sowell
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John Taylor Gatto quote about school, disassociation, and meaningless competitionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes." John Taylor Gatto
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Quote by Steven Spielberg about science fiction warning us about the futureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true." Steven Spielberg
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Quote by Heinrich Heine about inner liberation and spiritual slaveryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The German is like a slave who obeys his master without chains, without a whip, by the mere word, even by a glance. Servitude is within him, in his soul; spiritual slavery is worse than material slavery. The Germans must be liberated from within; nothing from without will help." Heinrich Heine
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Quotation by William E. Borah on the importance of a free press and liberty of speech in democracyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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Quote about freethinkers by Leo Tolstoi emphasizing the importance of open-mindednessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking…" Leo Tolstoi
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Doris Lessing quote about freedom, courage, truth, and democracyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born." Doris Lessing
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Quote by Dr. med. Heinrich Will about health, hygiene, and disease ratesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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Brock Chisholm quote about health, humanity, science, and social challengesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty." Brock Chisholm
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Walter Lippmann quote about successful politicians and insecurityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies." Walter Lippmann
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Neil Postman quote about voting, polling, political impotence, and the news mediaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing." Neil Postman
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What Is Government? quote image by Harry BrowneCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices." Harry Browne
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Milton Friedman quote image about the three primary functions of government, freedom, and the role of the stateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player." Milton Friedman
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Harry Edson Browne quote image about individual money use and government spendingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn." Harry Edson Browne
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Harry Browne quote image about government as forceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily." Harry Browne
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George Orwell quote about political language, euphemism, and making lies sound truthfulCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable." George Orwell
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Quote image featuring Henry A. Wallace on fascism, intolerance, power, and moneyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends." Henry A. Wallace
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James M. Buchanan quote about rent control, housing policy, and economic consequencesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of course, it inhibits construction and creates the very thing it is supposed to alleviate. It is one of those things where people simply don't understand simple economics and, therefore, put in for political reasons what will damage the very people that it is designed to help. Minimum wage levels are another classic example." James M. Buchanan
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Capitalism and inflation quote by Terence McKennaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay ? for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed." Terence McKenna
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