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    George Eliot
    “It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
    ― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, wisdom
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”
    ― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
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    “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
    ― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World
    tags: misattributed-to-plato, paraphrased, people, play
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    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
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    Plato
    “There is truth in wine and children”
    ― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
    tags: aphorism
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    Plato
    “Those who tell the stories rule society.”
    ― Plato
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  • #10
    Plato
    “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
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    Plato
    “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    ― Plato
    tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness
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    Plato
    “You should not honor men more than truth.”
    ― Plato
    tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth
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  • #17
    Plato
    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
    ― Plato
    tags: aphorism
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  • #18
    Plato
    “Character is simply habit long continued.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: compulsion, education, knowledge, learning, teaching
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  • #20
    Plato
    “For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
    ― Plato, Theaetetus
    tags: philosophy, thinking, wisdom, wondering
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  • #21
    Plato
    “The first and best victory is to conquer self”
    ― Plato
    tags: inspirational
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    Plato
    “Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”
    ― Plato
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    Terence McKenna
    “Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: earth, gun, sustainability, western-civilization
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    Terence McKenna
    “We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: consciousness, fear
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    Terence McKenna
    “If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: life-plan
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    Terence McKenna
    “You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: consciousness, crisis, explorer, ideas, wisdom
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    Terence McKenna
    “The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
    ― Terence McKenna
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    Terence McKenna
    “We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: empowerment, life
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    Terence McKenna
    “What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”
    ― Terence McKenna
    tags: civilization, culture, life, terence-mckenna
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    Terence McKenna
    “It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”
    ― Terence McKenna
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