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• A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

  Andy Grove

  Technology, Fundamentals, Improvement

  "The Thinkers 50: The World's Most Influential Business". Book by Ciarán Parke, p. 70, 2006.

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Insomnia, Long, Mind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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• Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

  Carrie Nation

  Faith, Tombstone, Causes

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• It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Christian, Lying, Believe

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• It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Differences, Justice

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• It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

  Oscar Arias

  Revenge, Confused, Two

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• For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.

  Ernestine Rose

  Women, Lying, Ideas

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I love how you just make coffee and then somehow something gets done.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Coffee

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2011

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• Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

  Susan B. Anthony

  Clever, Cycling, Riding

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• Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.

  Billy Gardell

  Couple, Congratulations, Party

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• I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Patriotic

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1778). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”, p.286

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• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

  Robert Wyatt

  Disappointment, Constant

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• For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Prayer, Patriotic, Pride

  Telephone Talk With Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon, delivered 20 July 1969, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Religious, Educational

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• Suicide note. "To my friends. My work is done why wait?"

  George Eastman

  Suicide, Work, Suicidal

  "Chronicles of a second African trip".

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• Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Reality

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.48, Race Point Publishing

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• How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Loyalty, Art, Integrity

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.

  Francis Wayland Parker

  Children, Educational, School

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• The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Educational, Learning

  Mark Twain (1929). “Stormfield Edition of the Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: What is man? and other essays”

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• Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

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• The bench press per se is not a risky exercise. When done right, it can help improve upper body strength and size. It's only when form takes a back seat to numbers and when it's grossly overtrained that problems result. Injuries occur in the shoulders and elbows when the bench press is overtrained, poor technique is used, such as rebounding the bar off the chest and bridging, no other exercises for the upper body are included in the program, and there are no core exercises done for the upper back. Quite often, it's a combination all these factors.

  Bill Starr

  Workout, Exercise, Bad Ass

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• Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Hard Times

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Daily Readings from It's Your Time Boxed Set”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Believe, Hard Work

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• The way the public sees it is this. If we don't leave, we are idiots. If we do leave but don't succeed in our mission, we are incompetent. But if we do succeed, it's because it was easy and anyone could have done it.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Airplane, Way, Succeed

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