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"Promise me you'll always remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." Alan Alexander Milne
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"The secret to success is to keep going where others would give up." Unknown
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." Rabindranath Tagore
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"Think big. Think disruptive. Execute with full passion." Masayoshi Son
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"You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream." Clive Staples Lewis
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"Don’t let it get you down, be cheeky and wild and wonderful." Astrid Lindgren
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"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it." Jordan Belfort
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"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." Anthony Robbins
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"He who regards failure only as a small detour never loses sight of his goal." Martin Luther
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"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." Peter T. McIntyre
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"Being successful requires two things: Clear goals and a burning desire to achieve them." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Alva Edison
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"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." Thomas Alva Edison
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"Success comes to those who keep working while they wait for it." Thomas Alva Edison
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill Gates
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"Experience is what we call the sum of all our mistakes." Thomas Alva Edison
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"I don't measure success by my wins, but by whether I get better every year" Tiger Woods
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"People are what determine your success in the future, surround yourself with good people and you won't fail." Harry Wayne Huizenga
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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin
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"If you don’t go towards your dreams, only everyday things will come towards you." Ernst Ferstl
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"The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is." Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
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"The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow." Ingvar Feodor Kamprad
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"Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day." Avram Joel Spolsky
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"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." Anthony „Tony" Robbins
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"A dream doesn’t become reality by magic, it takes sweat, determination and hard work." Colin Powell
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"If you look closely, most overnight successes have taken a very long time." Steve Jobs
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"It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." Steve Jobs
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"Don’t play games you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money at them." Tony Hsieh
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"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities." Robert H. Schuller
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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible." Alvin Toffler
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"Becoming vegan has given me a greater purpose, something bigger than myself to fight for, and fight I will." David H. Carter Jr.
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"No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed." Gary Yourofsky
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"The future is not something we enter, the future is something we create." Unbekannt
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou
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"When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money." Henry Louis Mencken
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"Saving one animal doesn't change the whole world. But the whole world changes for that one animal." Vegane Weisheiten
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"There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will." Albert Einstein
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"Follow your own star! Follow your path, and let the people talk." Dante Alighieri
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"Trust only yourself when others doubt you, but do not resent their doubts." Joseph Rudyard Kipling
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"The distance is unimportant. Only the first step is important." Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
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"Children must learn how to think, not what to think." Margaret Mead
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"we can take either the Earth or the Sun, or any other point for that matter, as the center of the solar system." Fred Hoyle
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""The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest,” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS."" Albert Einstein
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"This is about: What is actually best for children and young people? And how do they get their education and how do they become citizens? Because that is also the goal of our schooling, that I am an educated person who can also fulfill my civic duties and for that I need appropriate behavior and I learn that not only explicitly through knowledge, but also implicitly by practicing a state on a small scale, namely at school." Anita Hofmann
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"You imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track." Albert Einstein
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"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." Henry Louis Mencken
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"So, what you learn when you study science in general, but astrophysics especially, is that you no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense, or you no longer invoke your personal philosophies to judge what should be true. The universe is what it is, and it really doesn't care about your senses." Neil deGrasse Tyson
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"In Newton’s day, the Ptolemaic system and the Keplerian version of the Copernican system were taught side by side in the universities of the world. But the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side. In the minds of most scientists, the heliocentric universe had become fact…Yet there remained a crucial missing element in what was otherwise a complete and compelling picture of the universe: Not one shred of indisputable observational proof existed that the Earth moved through space.Here then was the holy grail of many an astronomer. To prove that the Earth in fact revolved in a wide orbit around the Sun, the parallax of just one star – any star – had to be detected. The hunt for stellar parallax was on." Alan Hirshfeld
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"Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central earth. The hypothesis cannot be disproved but it is unwelcome and would be accepted only as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. [...] But the unwelcome supposition of a favoured location must be avoided at all costs." Edwin Powell Hubble
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"Now at first sight, all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe. In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe. There is, however, an alternate explanation: the universe might look the same in every direction as seen from any other galaxy too. This, as we have seen, was Friedmann’s second assumption. We have no scientific evidence for, or against, this assumption. We believe it only on grounds of modesty" Stephen William Hawking
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"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreshadowing of an America in the time of my children or grandchildren – when the United States is a service and information economy; when Almost all major manufacturing industries have moved to other countries; when terrible technological powers are in the hands of too few, and no one representing the public interest can understand the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agenda. Lost or deliberately questioned by those in power; when, holding our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our vital faculties decline, in distinguishing between what feels good and what is true Unable, we go back to superstition and darkness, almost without noticing. America’s downfall is most evident in the slow decay of real content in the most influential media, 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), credible presentations on lowest common denominator programming, pseudoscience and superstition, but especially From a kind of celebration of ignorance." Dr. Carl Edward Sagan
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"They defend the old theories by complicating things to the point of incomprehensibility." Fred Hoyle
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"Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out beliefs, And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. Be not afraid To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"Life is like sailing. You can’t change direction, but you can adjust the sails to always reach your destination." Unbekannt
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"A bad day of sailing is a hundred times better than a good day at work." Unbekannt
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"To reach a harbor, we must sail – sail, not anchor – sail, not drift." Roosevelt
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"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know." Steven Spielberg
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"Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth." William Mathews
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"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal." Walter Lippmann
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"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." Henry Louis Mencken
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"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different." Hippokrates von Kos
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"Medicine has today become a religion, and doctors are the priests of this religion, very powerful priests ... they can tell you to (insert command here) and you normally do it." Robert S. Mendelsohn
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"If medicines and vaccines were merely products of medical science, then dealing with them could also be a matter of science. But medicines are not scientific; they are sacred...." Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn
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"In der Tat wird es immer offensichtlicher, dass nicht Hungersnöte, nicht Erdbeben, nicht Mikroben, nicht Krebs, sondern der Mensch selbst die größte Gefahr für den Menschen darstellt, und zwar aus dem einfachen Grund, dass es keinen angemessenen Schutz gegen psychische Epidemien gibt, die unendlich viel verheerender sind als die schlimmsten Naturkatastrophen" Carl Gustav Jung
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"Television deals with the decomposition of human consciousness." Sergei Petrowitsch Kapiza
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"Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is today in the hands of those utterly irresponsible regarding their role in society." Sergei Petrowitsch Kapiza
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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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"Climate disclosures must become comprehensive, climate risk management must be transformed, and sustainable investments must become mainstream. Companies that anticipate these developments will be generously rewarded. Those that don't will cease to exist." Mark Carney
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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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"Auch wenn es sicher richtig ist, daß eine radikale eugenische Politik für viele Jahre politisch und psychologisch unmöglich sein wird, wird es für die UNESCO wichtig sein, dafür zu sorgen, daß das eugenische Problem mit der größten Sorgfalt geprüft und die Öffentlichkeit über das fragliche Thema informiert wird, damit vieles, was heute undenkbar erscheint, wenigstens wieder denkbar wird." Julian Huxley
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"The implications of transferring full sovereignty from individual nations to a world organization. Political unity in some form of world government will be necessary. Even if... any radical eugenic policy will be politically and psychologically impossible for many years, one must proceed with utmost care and inform the public about the issues at stake, so that much of what is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable." Julian Huxley
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"A well-packaged statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie" which misleads you, but it cannot be pinned on you." Darrell Huff
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"A physical law must possess mathematical beauty," Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
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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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"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest." Edward Bernays
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"To be happy, all you need is yourself and your positive outlook on life." Unbekannt
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit." Sir Josiah Stamp
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"If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation." Sir Josiah Stamp
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"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!" Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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"There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." John Swinton
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"The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it," John Swinton
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"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson..." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Our monetary system gives rise to capitalism, interest, mass poverty, revolt, and ultimately civil war, which leads back to barbarism. Anyone who prefers to exercise their own mind rather than smash the heads of others should study the nature of money." Silvio Gesell
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"What we need is protection from ruinous products, because in reality the banks are a huge mafia that has poisoned the entire world with these products." Dr. jur. Jörg Haider
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"We will try to accommodate policymakers a little." Dr. Martin Terhardt
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"I have [...] the impression that most politicians are still not aware just how much they are controlled today by the financial markets, indeed that they are ruled by them." Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans Tietmeyer
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"[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America." Edward Mandell House
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"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom." Woodrow Wilson