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  • #241
    John Steinbeck
    “People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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  • #242
    Theodor W. Adorno
    “Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
    ― Theodor Adorno
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  • #243
    Theodor W. Adorno
    “There is no love that is not an echo.”
    ― Theodor Adorno
    tags: love, wistful-advise
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  • #244
    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: science
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  • #245
    “Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”
    ― Denis Waitley
    tags: motivational, procrastination, time
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  • #246
    Wernher von Braun
    “We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
    ― Wernher Von Braun
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  • #247
    Wernher von Braun
    “Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.”
    ― Wernher Von Braun
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  • #248
    Wernher von Braun
    “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”
    ― Wernher Von Braun
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  • #249
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”
    ― Arthur C Clarke
    tags: rama-ii
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  • #250
    H.G. Wells
    “Our true nationality is mankind.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: nationalism, racism
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  • #251
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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  • #252
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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  • #253
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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  • #254
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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  • #255
    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
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  • #256
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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  • #257
    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics
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  • #258
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: books
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  • #259
    Winston S. Churchill
    “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
    ― Sir Winston Churchill
    tags: inspirational, life, success
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  • #260
    Winston S. Churchill
    “From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: language
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  • #261
    Winston S. Churchill
    “In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
    ― Winston Spencer-Churchill
    tags: humility
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  • #262
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: persistence, public-speaking, speeches
    454 likes

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  • #263
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: ignorance, truth
    290 likes

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  • #264
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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  • #265
    Winston S. Churchill
    “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: distractions
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  • #266
    H.L. Mencken
    “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, politics, predictions, voter, voting
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  • #267
    Derrick A. Bell
    “We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.”
    ― Derrick Bell, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
    tags: democracy, equality, ethics, injustice, meritocracy, prosperity, social-justice, success, systematic-oppression
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  • #268
    Chinua Achebe
    “Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
    ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
    tags: achievement, meritocracy
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  • #269
    Nikola Tesla
    “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science
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  • #270
    Nikola Tesla
    “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
    ― Nikola Tesla
    tags: insanity
    789 likes



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