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“Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.”
― L. Ron Hubbard

“When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.”
― L. Ron Hubbard

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

“Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.”
― Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

“One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast-food model of quality assurance when they should be adopting the Michelin model instead. The future for education is not in standardizing but in customizing; not in promoting groupthink and “deindividuation” but in cultivating the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Creative teams are dynamic.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing can happen to a great mind.”
― Ken Robinson Ph.D.

“If you are going to eat shit, don't nibble.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

“Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl

“I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“My face was puffed out like I had been stung by a hive of pissed off bees; although that doesn’t make any sense. I mean, if a bee stings you, then, by nature, he’s pissed off. Right?”
― Mark Tufo, Zombie Fallout

“Well that’s one benefit of the zombie apocalypse…drunk driving isn’t a crime anymore.”
― Mark Tufo, 'Till Death Do Us Part

“But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no longer anything but the mannequins of power. Formerly, the king (also the god) had to die, therein lay his power. Today, he is miserably forced to feign death, in order to preserve the blessing of power. But it is lost.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the supreme power that is simply incarnated in images as a visible theology? Or does it volatilize itself in the simulacra that, alone, deploy their power and pomp of fascination - the visible machinery of icons substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God?”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is. They seek happiness and fulfilment through the simulacra of reality, e.g. media and avoid the contact/interaction with the real world. (Note: This quote is fake and does not appear in Simulacra and Simulation. I tried to delete it, but the system doesn't allow that because this quote has "too many fans" lol.)”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“So, there is no longer striking, nor work, but both simultaneously, that is to say something else: a magic of work, a trompel'oeil, a scenodrama (so as not to say a melodrama) of production, a collective dramaturgy on the empty stage of the social.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic?

Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified the failure of the planetary strategy of the United States, it would necessarily have completely disrupted its internal balance and the American political system.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation