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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
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
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
Inspirational quote image featuring B. J. Palmer on inner guidance and lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The master maker of the human body did not create you and then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as innate, as the fellow within, as nerve transmission controlling every function of life, as spirit from above-down, inside-out, expressing, creating, exploring, directing you in every field and phase of experience so that your home is truly the world and the world is your home." B. J. Palmer
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
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
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
Inspirational quote image featuring B. J. Palmer on inner guidance and lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The master maker of the human body did not create you and then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as innate, as the fellow within, as nerve transmission controlling every function of life, as spirit from above-down, inside-out, expressing, creating, exploring, directing you in every field and phase of experience so that your home is truly the world and the world is your home." B. J. Palmer
Bryan Adams quote about pursuing a career in music without seeking stardomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star." Bryan Adams
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
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
Hans-Peter Dürr quote image about future models, imagination, and optimismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We need models for the future that don’t paint everything as bleak and gloomy, but rather set worthwhile goals. I would like human society to take a more optimistic approach to planning for the future. We should encourage individuals to use their imagination to make even small changes. That, in fact, is the concept of the future." Hans-Peter Dürr
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
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
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
Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote about substance, depth, values, and meaningful progressCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember." Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Paul Feyerabend quote about science as one of many instruments for coping with surroundingsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own." Paul Feyerabend
Paul Feyerabend quote about the academic world and individual freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what you want to do and advocate for it, no one will put any energy into stopping you." Paul Feyerabend
Quote by Viktor Schauberger about science being controlled and a call for freedomCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I will return to my forest to die in peace. The whole of science and all its appendages are just a bunch of thieves hanging like marionettes on strings and having to dance to whatever tune their well-hidden slave masters deem necessary." Viktor Schauberger
Quote by Etienne de Harven discussing viral epidemics and the role of fearmongering by media and pharmaceutical industryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We are not witnessing viral epidemics; we are witnessing epidemics of fear. And both the media and the pharmaceutical industry carry most of the responsibility for amplifying fears, fears that happen, incidentally, to always ignite fantastically profitable business. Research hypotheses covering these areas of virus research are practically never scientifically verified with appropriate controls. Instead, they are established by "consensus." This is then rapidly reshaped into a dogma, efficiently perpetuated in a quasi-religious manner by the media, including ensuring that research funding is restricted to projects supporting the dogma, excluding research into alternative hypotheses. An important tool to keep dissenting voices out of the debate is censorship at various levels ranging from the popular media to scientific publications." Etienne de Harven
Étienne de La Boétie quote image about liberty, freedom, and tyrannyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit." Étienne de La Boétie
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
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
Paul Farmer quote about social justice in medicine and public healthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick." Paul Farmer
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
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
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
Edward Bernays quote image about media, public opinion, and invisible governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time." Edward Bernays
Albert Jay Nock quote image about the State and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung." Albert Jay Nock
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
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
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
David Graeber quote about student loans, youth, creativity, and societyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like ?,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people." David Graeber