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"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."

― Alfred Korzybski

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A visitor to physicist Niels Bohr, noticing a horseshoe hung above the entrance, asked incredulously if the Nobel prize winner believed horseshoes brought good luck. “No,” Bohr reportedly replied, “but I am told that they bring luck even to those who do not believe in them”

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"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
- Charles Dudley Warner

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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
- Isaac Asimov

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“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”

Lewis Hyde

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"Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."

- H. Mumford Jones

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“Crisis… is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis.”

-Alain de Botton

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"Lo reaccionario es la patología de lo conservador. Es ir para atrás y de una forma dogmática y cerrada. La patología de la izquierda es el infantilismo. Es la confusión permanente de la ilusión con la realidad"

-Pepe Mujica

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"Copying is not theft. Stealing a thing leaves one less left. Copying it makes one thing more. That's what copying's for. "

-Nina Paley

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Strike out 'television' above for 'algorithmically optimised content' on the internet.

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"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

- Clive Barnes

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"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."

- Sidney J. Harris

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"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

-Gustave Flaubert

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“Don’t tell me your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.”

— James W. Frick

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"Nothing fails like success."

- Gerald Nachman

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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."
- Malcolm de Chazal

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"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it."

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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"If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech."

- W. Somerset Maugham

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One of the great paradoxes is that the missionaries end up making more money than the mercenaries anyway.

- Peter H. Diamandis, (Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World)