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Henry Ford quote image about leadership, hidden talent, and achieving greatnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right." Henry Ford
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Henry Ford quote image about leadership, hidden talent, and achieving greatnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right." Henry Ford
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Inspirational quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the power of commitment and boldnessCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would have never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Noam Chomsky quote about schools, education, and power structuresCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely." Noam Chomsky
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Quote image featuring John Taylor Gatto on schools, standardization, and controlCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and controlled." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about reading, analysis, discussion, and independent thinkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about learning and teachingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about self-direction, growth, mastery, and educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another." John Taylor Gatto
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Thomas Sowell quote image about education and critical thinkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far." Thomas Sowell
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Quote by Max Planck about the importance of faith in scientific workCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with." Max Planck
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Quote by Marcia Angell about the crisis in clinical research and medical guidelinesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine" Marcia Angell
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Quote by Richard Horton about issues in scientific literature and the dark side of scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness" Richard Horton
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Quote about the scientific method and guesswork by Dr. Michio KakuCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In Science, we always say that you make observations you have a theory you make more observations and it’s a very very tedious process… WRONG! Nobody that I know of in my field, uses the so-called Scientific Method. In our field, it’s by the seat of your pants, it’s leaps of logic, it’s GUESSWORK." Dr. Michio Kaku
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Quote about the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in science by Michio KakuCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Usually in science, if we're off by a factor of 2 or a factor of 10, we call that horrible. We say, something's wrong with the theory. We're off by a factor of 10! However, in cosmology, we're off by a factor of 10 to the 120th. That is one with 100 and 20 zeroes after it. This is the largest mismatch between theory and experiment in the history of science." Michio Kaku
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Quote by Pope Pius XII on science, creation, and the existence of GodCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat lux' Let there be light uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of the chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies ... Hence, creation took place in time, therefore, there is a Creator, God exists. Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it." Papst Pius XII
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Neil deGrasse Tyson quote on science and guidance beyond scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Some have asked me where scientists turn after science has yielded no clear solution. I tell these people what my grandfather Charles Darwin told me: roll back your eyes, contort your body, and let the dark lord Satan show you the way" Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Alexander von Humboldt quote about the purpose of science and the dignity of mathematicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"One forgets that the sciences have an intrinsic purpose and loses sight of the truly literary interest, the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Mathematics loses none of its dignity when regarded merely as an object of speculation, as inapplicable to solving practical problems." Alexander von Humboldt
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Rupert Sheldrake quote about scientific materialism, psychic phenomena, and rational inquiryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute." Rupert Sheldrake
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Thomas Kuhn quote about scientific discoveries and solving problems through scienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated." Thomas Kuhn
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John Taylor Gatto quote about self-limitation, fear, and low expectationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations." John Taylor Gatto
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Murray Rothbard quote about anarchist society and the StateCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights." Murray Rothbard
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Harry Browne quote about government control, individual freedom, and the economyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives." Harry Browne
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Quote by Anita Hofmann about the true purpose of education and citizenshipCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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Quote image featuring Ivan Illich on programmed environments and self-governmentCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed." Ivan Illich
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H. L. Mencken quote about political parties, candidates, and electionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in." H. L. Mencken
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Quote by Avro Manhattan about the Vatican's significant role in political events and world situationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"No political event or circumstance can be evaluated without the knowledge of The Vatican's part in it. And no significant world situation exists in which The Vatican does not play an important explicit or implicit role." Avro Manhattan
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Quote image featuring Charles Wright Mills on government and political economyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests." Charles Wright Mills
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Charles Wright Mills quote about power, wealth, celebrity, and access to major institutionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions." Charles Wright Mills
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Quote by Max Weber on violence, power, and political communitiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All political entities are violent entities. But the type and degree of the use or threat of external violence against other similar entities plays a specific role in the structure and fate of political communities. Not every political entity is equally "expansive" in the sense that it seeks power externally, i.e., making force available for the purpose of acquiring political power over other territories and communities, whether in the form of incorporation or [of] dependency. The political entities are thus, to varying degrees, outwardly turned entities of violence." Max Weber
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Quote by Richard Syron comparing the Federal Reserve System to the ChurchCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The System is just like the Church. That’s probably why I feel so comfortable with it. It’s got a pope, the chairman; and a college of cardinals, the governors and bank presidents; and a curia, the senior staff. The equivalent of the laity is the commercial banks. If you’re a naughty parishioner in the Catholic Church, you come to confession. In this system, if you’re naughty, you come to the discount window for a loan. We even have different orders of religious thought like Jesuits and Franciscans and Dominicans only we call them pragmatists and monetarists and neo-Keynesians." Richard Syron
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Andrew Jackson quote image about the monetary system and injusticeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning." Andrew Jackson
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Thomas Sowell quote about theft, robbery, taxation, and social justiceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice." Thomas Sowell
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Quote about money creation and debt by G. Edward GriffinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish." G. Edward Griffin
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Quote image featuring Upton Sinclair on media power and influenceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When the masters of industry pay such sums for a newspaper, they buy not merely the building and the presses and the name; they buy what they call the "good-will"- that is, they buy you. And they proceed to change your whole psychology - everything that you believe about life. You might object to it, if you knew; but they do their work so subtly that you never guess what is happening to you!" Upton Sinclair
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