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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Malcolm X
    “The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
    Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

  • #3
    Thales
    “Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”
    Thales

  • #4
    Thales
    “Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”
    Thales

  • #5
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #6
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #7
    Herbert A. Simon
    “Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.”
    Herbert A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial

  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #10
    Aristotle
    “A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be. An end, on the contrary, is that which itself naturally follows some other thing, either by necessity, or as a rule, but has nothing following it. A middle is that which follows something as some other thing follows it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles.”
    Aristotle, Poetics

  • #11
    Aristotle
    “With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.”
    Aristotle, Poetics

  • #12
    Aristotle
    “The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”
    Aristotle, Poetics

  • #13
    Aristotle
    “the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”
    Aristotle, Poetics

  • #14
    Aristotle
    “To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.”
    Aristotle, Politics

  • #15
    Bob Marley
    “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.”
    Bob Marley, Bob Marley - Legend

  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #18
    Barack Obama
    “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
    Barack Obama

  • #19
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #20
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #21
    Malcolm X
    “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
    Malcolm X

  • #22
    Mother Teresa
    “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
    We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #23
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #24
    John Lennon
    “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
    John Lennon

  • #25
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

  • #26
    Ovid
    “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
    Ovid

  • #27
    James Joyce
    “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #28
    H.G. Wells
    “A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.”
    H.G. Wells, World Brain

  • #29
    Sun Tzu
    “There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

    There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
    they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

    There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
    them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
    Jalal ad-Din Rumi



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