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    Albert Einstein
    “A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: dissent, independent-thought, science
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    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first
    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

    [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence
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    George Farquhar
    “Those who know the least obey the best.”
    ― George Farquhar
    tags: know, least, obey
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    Jimmy Buffett
    “I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead. ”
    ― Jimmy Buffett
    tags: inspirational, zombie
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130145 likes

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    Ernest Hemingway
    “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
    tags: defeat
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    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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  • #9
    “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
    ― Colin Powell, On Leadership
    tags: leadership, responsibility
    292 likes

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  • #10
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    ― Alice Walker
    tags: inspirational
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    ― Paul Terry
    tags: exercise, humor, laziness, misattributed-to-hutchins
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    Richard Diaz
    “Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.”
    ― Richard Diaz, Illness Defined; The Theorem
    tags: complex, design, engineered, simple
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    Richard Diaz
    “That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: good, individual, society
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    Richard Diaz
    “Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: common-sense, diaz, information, science
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    Richard Diaz
    “Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: doctors, education, prison, profession
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    Richard Diaz
    “If you can't tolerate the truth, never ask me a question.”
    ― Richard Diaz, Illness Defined; The Theorem
    tags: question, truth
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    Richard Diaz
    “With certainty, I can predict that there will never be a cure to cancer. The only hope for any of us is to concentrate on cause and prevent the misery.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: cause, cure, misery, prevent
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  • #19
    Richard Diaz
    “People don't care about health,
    they just don't want to be sick.”
    ― Richard Diaz
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    Richard Diaz
    “Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is an intentional effort in frustration.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: health, illness
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
    37981 likes

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    Richard Diaz
    “There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: elegance, excellence
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    Richard Diaz
    “For every question, there is an answer.
    Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: answer, failure, question
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    Richard Diaz
    “Without knowing the cause of illness, any treatment must be considered a guess.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: illness, treatment
    13 likes

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    Richard Diaz
    “The best way to find anything is to look with an opened mind.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: find, look
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    Richard Diaz
    “Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: golden-goose, medicine, sick
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    Richard Diaz
    “Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an idea. Always listen to the idea, it's more valid then any words that I can use.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: focus, idea, listen, words
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  • #28
    Richard Diaz
    “If you lose your temper, you lose!”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: emotional-control, losing, serenity, temper, winning
    42 likes

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  • #29
    Richard Diaz
    “The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.”
    ― Richard Diaz
    tags: details, life, living
    9 likes

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  • #30
    “I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.”
    ― Charlie Sheen
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  • #31
    “The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.”
    ― Charlie Sheen
    tags: broken, heart, pretend
    573 likes



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