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Brian Tracy quote about how clear goals and big goals fuel achievement and drive successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them." Brian Tracy
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Brian Tracy quote about how clear goals and big goals fuel achievement and drive successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. The bigger your goals and the clearer they are, the more excited you become about achieving them. The more you think about your goals, the greater becomes your inner drive and desire to accomplish them." Brian Tracy
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Russell Simmons quote about hard work, ideas, and achieving successCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success." Russell Simmons
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Stella McCartney quote about women's activewear design, technology, and performanceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I was first drawn to active wear because I enjoy working out, and it's very important in this day in age. I really felt women were getting the tail end of the design in active wear; not getting the technology or design we deserved. It was reserved for men. We were getting the leftover work from the sports design houses." Stella McCartney
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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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Allan Bloom quote image about education and the love of the beautifulCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism." Allan Bloom
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Quote about universal literacy and propaganda by Edward L. BernaysCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine." Edward L. Bernays
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Education and manipulation quote image by Erich FrommCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable." Erich Fromm
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John Taylor Gatto quote about children, education, and the habits taught by large-scale organizationsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly." John Taylor Gatto
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Aldous Huxley quote about education, truth, and critical thinkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education." Aldous Huxley
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Thomas Sowell quote about young people and sweeping judgmentsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience." Thomas Sowell
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Educational reform and imagination quote by Hans-Peter DürrCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"How can we get our imaginations soaring again? We need to change our education system. In my opinion, we need to drastically reduce the curriculum so that young people can experiment with their thinking again." Hans-Peter Dürr
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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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Religion and science quote by Guy Consolmagno about faith, reality, and conscienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism - it's turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do." Guy Consolmagno
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Science and intuition quote by Guy ConsolmagnoCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic." Guy Consolmagno
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Quote by Vince Ebert about science versus theology and the importance of checking assumptionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"For example, if I suspect that there might still be beer in the fridge and I check, then in principle I'm already doing a preliminary form of science. Big difference to theology. In theology, assumptions are not usually tested. So if I just say “there's beer in the fridge”, I'm a theologian. If I look, I'm a scientist. If I look, find nothing and still claim there's beer in it - then I'm an esoteric!" Vince Ebert
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Quote about time travel and space-time by Stephen HawkingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Since we can’t change the way the universe began, the question of whether time travel is possible is one of whether we can subsequently make space–time so warped that one can go back to the past. I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel. Yet it is a very serious question." Stephen Hawking
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Quote on particle physics by Alexander Unzicker about the misuse of language and money in fundamental physics researchCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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The sensational news that a fundamental particle has been discovered is somewhere between a misuse of language and a lie. What was found did not solve a single problem in physics, and yet was immediately celebrated as the discovery of the century. Whether this was deliberate misdirection, shameless puffery or foolish parroting remains to be seen. [...] The idea of tens of thousands of physicists conducting an unmanageable experiment on a nonsensical theoretical model, seems to prohibit itself. It is too painful to even consider. But this is soberly true. Particle physics is money thrown away.” Alexander Unzicker
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Quote by Dr Ernst Chain about the complexity of the origin of lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I have said for years that speculations about the origin of life lead to no useful purpose as even the simplest living system is far too complex to be understood in terms of the extremely primitive chemistry scientists have used in their attempts to explain the unexplainable that happened billions of years ago." Dr. Ernst Chain
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Quote by Rupert Sheldrake about scientism becoming a dogmatic belief systemCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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""scientism is where people turn science into a kind of religion. It becomes a kind of dogmatic belief system. The irony is that a lot of people think that religion is dogmatic and science is free-thinking, but actually, in my experience, some of the most dogmatic people I know are people who've made science into a kind of religion. We still have flat earthers, we have people that don't believe in vaccinations, and what do we do about it?"" Rupert Sheldrake
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Quote about scientific paradigms blocking progress by Sir Fred HoyleCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down." Sir Fred Hoyle
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Neil deGrasse Tyson quote about science and the universeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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Denis Diderot quote about acquiring knowledge through observation, reflection, and experimentationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." Denis Diderot
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Freedom and choices quote image attributed to Charles Wright MillsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose." Charles Wright Mills
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Paul Feyerabend quote about freedom, tradition, and equal access to powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it." Paul Feyerabend
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Gore Vidal quote about the meaning of liberal in political contextCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon." Gore Vidal
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Samuel Adams quote about defending freedom and civil libertiesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." Samuel Adams
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Samuel Adams quote about freedom, unity, and the dangers of tyrannyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny." Samuel Adams
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Walter Lippmann quote about politicians and human natureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases." Walter Lippmann
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Thomas Sowell quote about politicians and unintended consequences of their solutionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do." Thomas Sowell
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Quote image featuring Neil Postman on the influence of television on political lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether." Neil Postman
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Quote about the importance of politics by Martha GellhornCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics." Martha Gellhorn
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Quote by Dr. Angela Merkel about democracy and decisions being made against the majority of GermansCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Almost all of these decisions were made against the majority of Germans. In many cases, the Germans' attitude has only changed in retrospect. I also think it is reasonable for the population to first look at the result of a measure and then form a judgment about it. I believe this is an expression of the primacy of politics. And that should be upheld." Dr. Angela Merkel
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Alice Cooper quote about why politics and rock 'n' roll should not mixCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I don't like to mix politics and rock 'n' roll, i don't look at Bono, Sting and Bruce Springsteen as political. I look at them as being humanitarian. I'll contribute to anything humanitarian. Helping people who can't help themselves. But when musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that's an abuse of power. You're telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you. Rock 'n' roll is about freedom — and that's not freedom." Alice Cooper
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Tom Felton quote about childhood, wealth and fameCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them." Tom Felton
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Edward Bernays quote about advertising, propaganda, and creating continuous public demandCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable." Edward Bernays
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Ayn Rand quote about sacrifice, service, slavery, and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand quote about inflation, government monetary policy, and deficit spendingCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments." Ayn Rand
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Quote on materialism by Bernardo Kastrup about the failure of human intellect and nature's simplicityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Materialism represents an astonishing failure of the human intellect to see what’s right under its nose. It hides nature’s marvelous simplicity behind a veil of contrivance. Its continuing survival in face of the mounting odds of reason, evidence and direct experience requires constant and deliberate maintenance. Indeed, materialism serves powerful economic and political interests." Bernardo Kastrup
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Quote about global financial control by Carroll QuigleyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences." Carroll Quigley
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Quote about banks and fiat money by G. Edward GriffinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money." G. Edward Griffin
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