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Inspirational quote about success and persistence by Henry FordCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone. This rude, simple, primitive power which we call "stick-to-it-iveness" is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour. People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things. They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is." Henry Ford
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Karl Popper quote image about study motivation, learning, and the pursuit of knowledgeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement." Karl Popper
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Inspirational quote by Muhammad Ali about the concept of impossible being just an opinion and a challengeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing." Muhammad Ali
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Quote by Daniel Kahneman about the illusion of understanding the past and controlling the futureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The illusion that one has understood the past feeds the further illusion that one can predict and control the future. These illusions are comforting. They reduce the anxiety that we would experience if we allowed ourselves to fully acknowledge the uncertainties of existence. We all have a need for the reassuring message that actions have appropriate consequences, and that success will reward wisdom and courage. Many business books are tailor-made to satisfy this need." Daniel Kahneman
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Chris Hedges quote image about education, critical thinking, morality, power, and compassionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death." Chris Hedges
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Karl Popper quote image about study motivation, learning, and the pursuit of knowledgeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement." Karl Popper
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John Taylor Gatto quote about schooling and educationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!" John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote image about schools and blind obedienceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about school and institutional criticismCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor." John Taylor Gatto
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John Taylor Gatto quote about school, independent thinking, and the effects of constant surveillanceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior." John Taylor Gatto
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Karl Popper quote image about knowledge, modesty, and intellectual humilityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success." Karl Popper
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Chris Hedges quote image about education, critical thinking, morality, power, and compassionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death." Chris Hedges
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Quote image about intelligence, open-mindedness, and considering opposing evidence by UnbekanntCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"You must always be willing to truly consider evidence that contradicts your beliefs, and admit the possibility that you may be wrong. Intelligence isn’t knowing everything, it’s the ability to challenge everything you know." Unbekannt
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Paul Feyerabend quote about science, business principles, and military researchCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters." Paul Feyerabend
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Robert A. Heinlein quote about the scientific method, experimental proof, and academic authorityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory." Robert A. Heinlein
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Rupert Sheldrake quote about the relationship between religion, science, faith, and truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth." Rupert Sheldrake
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Nikola Tesla quote image about clear thinking, science, mathematics, and realityCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." Nikola Tesla
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John Dewey quote about independent thinking and democracyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young." John Dewey
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Voltaire quote about freedom, tyranny, and the importance of exercising libertyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." Voltaire
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Quote by Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn about hidden truths of the medical profession and pharmaceutical industryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There is so much that the average person doesn't know about the medical profession, that if they did, they would probably never again go for any treatment, test or check- up, because the profession has been hijacked by the pharmaceutical industry, & geared simply to create lifetime customers." Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn
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Quote by Klaus Dörner discussing the impact of competition in healthcare on defining illness and mental healthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Competition forces the development of new markets. The goal must be to turn all healthy people into sick people, i.e., people who consider themselves to be in need of therapeutic, rehabilitative, and preventive manipulation by experts, both chemically and psychologically, for as long as possible in order to be able to “live healthily.” This is already working quite well in the area of physical illness, but even better in the area of mental disorders, especially since there is no shortage of theories according to which almost all people are unhealthy. What is questionable is the analogous transfer of the concept of illness from the physical to the psychological. Some examples: a) The sensory organ of fear, responsible for signaling as yet unclear threats, is unpleasant but vitally necessary and therefore perfectly healthy; only the wrong way of dealing with fear (e.g., defense, repression) can make you ill. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, fear was recognized as a market niche and a number of new, independent disease entities were constructed – with many wonderful healing possibilities for grateful patients." Klaus Dörner
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Quote by Dr. Vernon Coleman about the pharmaceutical industry's control over medicineCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer." Dr. Vernon Coleman
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Quote by John A. McDougall about poor health caused by Western diet rich in fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, and animal proteinCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people." John A. McDougall
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"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people." Fred McFeely Rogers
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Inspirational Arthur Miller quote about political leadership, democracy, and theatrical illusionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line." Arthur Miller
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Quote image featuring Max Weber on the power and influence of a political careerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions." Max Weber
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Quote image featuring Charles Wright Mills on powerlessness and political frustrationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion." Charles Wright Mills
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Ben Carson quote about unity, political division, and the forces that create frictionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are." Ben Carson
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Albert Camus quote about political speeches, repeated lies, and public indifferenceCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests." Albert Camus
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Quote image featuring Markus Haintz on political influence in the judiciaryCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Of course, the judiciary is to a considerable extent politically occupied, and every jurist should know this, even if many now suppress it due to political fanaticism. Question: What is the 3rd state exam in the judiciary? Answer: the party book" Markus Haintz
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Murray Rothbard quote about government and coercionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessarily demagogic appeals for votes. If individuals do not know their own interests in many cases, they are free to turn to private experts for guidance. It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus." Murray Rothbard
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Image with quote by Juvenal about public apathy related to votes and 'bread and circuses'Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses." Juvenal
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Quote by Kim Kiyosaki about how the school system affects learning and children's spiritCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"In the school system, they don’t want us to learn about money, because they just want to pump out good employees that do what they’re told. If you look at school, it’s opposite of what it takes to be successful. In real life: ‘don’t make a mistake’, ‘do as you’re told’, ‘take tests by yourself’, ‘don’t cooperate’, ‘do it by yourself’, ‘do it alone’, ‘there’s only one right answer’… No, there’s tons of answers to a problem. So you come out of school scared to death of making a mistake, you do everything on your own, you don’t cooperate, there’s no synergy, there’s no brainstorming. So I think, people come out of school paralyzed. I think the school system is criminal in that it kills a child’s spirit of learning. A child goes into school all excited, ‘Oh, I’m gonna learn and it’s gonna be great’, and then, the teacher says ‘Sit down and shut up, don’t talk, we don’t care what you’re interested in’" Kim Kiyosaki
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