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• No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

  Robert Higgs

  Fire, Guarantees That, House

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• It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

  Ron Paul

  Winning, Trying, Trying To Change

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• Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

  Lynn Johnston

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity

  Napoleon Hill

  Home, Opportunity, Long

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• Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mistake, Way, Newton

  "What Neil deGrasse Tyson Can Teach You About Mental Health" by Nick Holt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2014.

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• A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

  Gerry Spence

  Rights, Tyrants, Promise

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.408, Macmillan

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• In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

  Brian Tracy

  Moving On, Action, Rapid Change

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 15, 2012

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• Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Giving, Receiving

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• We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Believe, Events

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Aug 04, 2012

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• Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

  Catherine Booth

  Running, Men, Soul

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• I do not believe there is an atheist in the world who would bulldoze Mecca-or Chartres, York Minster or Notre Dame, the Shwe Dagon, the temples of Kyoto or, of course, the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Kyoto

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• In 1992, with the weight of a perceived world on our shoulders, we disappeared into a parking garage to write the songs that would change the course of our lives forever. 'Siamese Dream' represents all of our dreams coming true, while the dreams of a happy band fell apart.

  Billy Corgan

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Smashing Pumpkins going deluxe on ‘Gish’ and ‘Siamese Dream’ reissues". uproxx.com. October 18, 2011.

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• The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

  Carl Jung

  Childhood, Individual, Disposition

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.82, Psychology Press

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• Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, Mind

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle.

  George W. Merck

  War, Study, Logical

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• Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Choices, Free Will

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• The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Advertising, Compass, Destination

  Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.2, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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• As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind to resist the blandishments of the enemies of promise. The sirens of ad-land sang sweetly and seductively, but I thought of Odysseus lashing himself to the mast of his ship, and somehow stayed on course.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Dedication, Land

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• And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, College, Hands

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, Reality, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Kids, Differences

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• The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.

  Italo Calvino

  Beautiful, Thinking, Order

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• Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Keys, Important

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.69, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Mistake, Men

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• I enjoy every opportunity and live every moment. And that is why I have no regrets. It's when you are not scared of losing that you win everything. Very often I take cabs to travel during the course of the day because I enjoy talking to cabbies from different parts of India.

  Shailender Singh

  Regret, Winning, Opportunity

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