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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #3
    Lou Holtz
    “When all is said and done, more is said than done.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #4
    “One of the defining features of religion is that your beliefs are not troubled by facts, because they have nothing to do with facts.”
    Anonymous

  • #5
    Thomas Wolfe
    “The hills climbed sunward to the sun. ”
    Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

  • #6
    Abdulazeez Henry Musa
    “The road to success in life is never an individual battle but a collective effort.”
    Abdulazeez Henry Musa

  • #7
    Nicole Mones
    “An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time”
    Nicole Mones, Night in Shanghai

  • #8
    John Stuart Mill
    “The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.”
    John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

  • #9
    Eknath Easwaran
    “A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill equipped to handle the challenges of the moment. By slowing down, we can train the mind to focus completely in the present. Then we will find that we can function well whatever the difficulties. That is what it means to be stress-proof: not avoiding stress but being at our best under pressure, calm, cool, and creative in the midst of the storm.”
    Eknath Easwaran, Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down

  • #10
    Harold Robbins
    “People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.”
    Harold Robbins, Never Leave Me

  • #11
    Harold Robbins
    “Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.”
    Harold Robbins, Never Leave Me

  • #12
    “the rule of law is not the same as rule by law.”
    Anonymous

  • #13
    Harold Robbins
    “The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.”
    Harold Robbins, Never Leave Me

  • #14
    Noam Chomsky
    “One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use.”
    Noam Chomsky, Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

  • #15
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    “A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.”
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

  • #16
    “One of the greatest aha moments possible is realizing our mind has a mind of its own. Our mind tells us what we want to hear. Our heart tells us what we need to hear.”
    Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

  • #17
    “Our mind thinks, and with our heart's wisdom we have the awareness to question those thoughts.”
    Regina Cates, Lead With Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose

  • #18
    Murray N. Rothbard
    “Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal”
    Murray N. Rothbard

  • #19
    Friedrich Schiller
    “The voice of the majority is no proof of justice”
    Friedrich Schiller, Maria Stuart

  • #20
    “  2387. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? (My sentiments exactly!) ”
    Olav Laudy, 4000 decent very funny jokes

  • #21
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila
    “Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”
    Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección

  • #22
    “If you avoid the rejection, you avoid the opportunity.”
    Dave Trott, Predatory Thinking: A Masterclass in Out-thinking the Competition

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    Marshall McLuhan
    “I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
    Marshall McLuhan

  • #25
    Marshall McLuhan
    “Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!”
    Marshall McLuhan

  • #26
    Marshall McLuhan
    “Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
    Marshall McLuhan

  • #27
    Marshall McLuhan
    “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
    Marshall McLuhan

  • #28
    Marshall McLuhan
    “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
    Marshall McLuhan

  • #29
    Marshall McLuhan
    “A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
    Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

  • #30
    Marshall McLuhan
    “One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”
    Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village



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