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• Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.

  Carl Sagan

  Country, Ignorance, Government

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

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• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. There is much wisdom in the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, World, May

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.91, Beacon Press

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• Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

  Brené Brown

  Worthiness

  "Insights at the Edge" with Tami Simon, www.soundstrue.com.

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• Detachment is not indifference. it is the prerequisite for effective involvement. Often what we think is best for others is distorted by our attachments to our opinions. We want others to be happy in the way we think they should be happy. It is only when we want nothing for ourselves that we are able to see clearly into others needs and understand how to serve them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Yoga, Thinking, Attachment

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• The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Real, Love Is, Making Love

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• If there were a prerequisite for the future successful digital creative, it would be the passion for discovery.

  John Maeda

  Passion, Creativity, Successful

  Twitter post from Nov 9, 2014

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• We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Needs, Safe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.

  Wayne Dyer

  Heart, Knowing, Desire

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting”, p.34, Hay House, Inc

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• People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.

  Atul Gawande

  People, Accomplishment, Expectations

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• Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

  Marlon Brando

  Privacy, Absolutes, Entitled

  "Marlon Brando". Book by David Shipman, Ch. 11, 1989.

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