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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Knowledge, Authority And Power

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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  I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

  Kurt Cobain

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Crazy, Differences

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• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

  Nora Ephron

  Depression, Crazy, Insane Person

  "What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

  Bertrand Russell

  Challenges, Way, Problem

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• If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Sunset, Firsts, Succeed

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• The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

  Tony Robbins

  Asking, Answers, Way

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• If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Voting, Nerd

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• You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Acceptance, Rejection

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• I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

  Garry Trudeau

  Trying, Lifestyle

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• A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

  Esther Hicks

  Happy Life, People, Trying

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• Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Science, Thinking

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• There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

  Norman Mailer

  Knowing, World, Wave

  "The Armies of the Night". Book by Norman Mailer, 1968.

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• If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.109, Booklassic

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• I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

  Georges Duhamel

  God, Ideas, World

  Le d‚sert de BiŠvres (1937) in Chronique des Pasquier (1948) vol. 5, p. 249

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• Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

  Marilyn Manson

  Change, Time, Media

  "47 years of Marilyn Manson: Has the society finally understood him?". www.radioandmusic.com. January 5, 2016.

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• Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

  Louise Lester

  Neighbour, Neighbourhoods

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• Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

  Bill Watterson

  Want, Careful

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• In God we trust; all others bring data.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Funny Good Morning, Data, Measurement

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• If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

  Ron Jeffries

  Interesting, Answers, Topics

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• After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'

  Ronnie Shakes

  Funny, Eye, Years

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• The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

  George Will

  Inspirational, Funny, Nice

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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