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If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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One day you will be called upon to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Everything will depend on it. You have to be ready. How are you going to prepare for that day when it really matters? You have to stay "in shape" so that when the big day comes you will be ready. What you need is "anarchist calisthenics." Every day or so break some trivial law that makes no sense, even if it's only jaywalking. Use your own head to jud..
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James C. Scott |
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People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children--especially, apparantly, their daughters.
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ignorance
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?
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John C. Maxwell |
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Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.
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John C. Maxwell |
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The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.
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Phillip C. McGraw |
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Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning.
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Thomas C. Foster |
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Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.
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John C. Maxwell |
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When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.
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John C. Maxwell |
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I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe -- the gods and other spirits -- don't exist. These people are mistaken, and you know it as well as I do. It is possible for highly intelligent people to have a very useful but mistaken theory, and we don't have to pretend otherwise in order to show respect for these people and their way..
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multiculturalism
relativism
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
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vernon-god-little
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D. B. C. Pierre |
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Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.
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leadership
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John C. Maxwell |
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The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others - not yourself - first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?
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leadership
self-discipline
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John C. Maxwell |
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The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
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contemplation
thinking
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John C. Maxwell |
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But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already played a major role in determining who or what we are. The "independent" mind struggling to protect itself from alien and dangerous memes is a myth. There is a persisting tension between the biol..
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me
memetics
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant--inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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creationism
evolution
science
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to..
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.
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motivational-inspirational
motivational-speaker
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John C. Maxwell |
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I don't think she's ever coming back.
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V. C. Andrews |
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Life is now in session. Are you present?
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inspiration
life
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John C. Maxwell |
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Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
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social
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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If he was indeed mad, his delusions were beautifully organized.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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evolution
philosophy
science
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. Keeping that awestruck vision of the ..
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE
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nonsense
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
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discipline
motivation
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John C. Maxwell |
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Now I can rejoice that I knew you, rather than mourn because I lost you.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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So this, thought Jan, with a resignation that lay beyond all sadness, was the end of man. It was an end that no prophet had foreseen - an end that repudiated optimism and pessimism alike. Yet it was fitting: it had the sublime inevitability of a great work of art. Jan had glimpsed the universe in all its immensity, and knew now that it was no place for man. He realized at last how vain, in the ultimate analysis, had been the dream that lure..
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal--the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth--is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition."
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tradition
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
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motivation
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John C. Maxwell |
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Always" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that it's not."
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Thomas C. Foster |
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One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsy..
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religion
science
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.
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Philip C. Plait |
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When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion.
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Robert C. O'Brien |
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Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
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John C. Maxwell |
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News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.
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danger
worry
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.
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humor
proverbs
safe
sorry
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Patricia C. Wrede |