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"I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me."
Thelonious Monk
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"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader? "
Hakeem Olajuwon
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer."
Bertrand Russell
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"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"
Oscar Wilde
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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar."
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
Albert Einstein
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"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. "
"The world is independent of my will."
"The limits of my language are the limits of my world. All I know is what I have words for."
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
Aristotle
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"I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know."
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract... it is a kind of compact between men not to harm or be harmed. "
Epicurus
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent"
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. "
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. "
Isaac Asimov
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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. "
"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."
Sun Tzu
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"The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King
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"The rap that we're exposed to is maybe 15% of what's out there. What the major companies have done in the last few years is find out that they couldn't find any more Whitesnakes. They took a look at their marketing budget and put it behind hip-hop and figured out how to make it pop. "
Chuck D
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