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• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

  Goldie

  Moving, Feelings, Emotion

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth,
  increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Growth, Energy, World

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• When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

  Michael Jackson

  Wings, Life Is, Divine

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• It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, Witty, Atheist

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Music, Art, Book

  Closing remarks at an eClass forum in Barnes & Noble University, December 05, 2004.

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• Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

  Henry Cavill

  People, Want, Ruins

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• I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

  Charles de Lint

  Interesting, Chinese, Interesting Times

  "Someplace to be Flying". Book by Charles de Lint, 1998.

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• Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.

  Susan Lucci

  Running, Moving, Goes On

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• Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Political, Doe

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• The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

  Kedar Joshi

  Angel, Self, Devil

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• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Hate, Real

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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  Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Historical, Empires

  "The Revolution: A Manifesto". Book by Ron Paul, April 30, 2008.

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  We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Knowledge

  "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Writing, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

  Alexander the Great

  Leadership, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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• I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

  Albert Einstein

  Government, Justice, Community

  "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.

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• It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Weakness, Species

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.355, Ballantine Books

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• Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

  Howard Zinn

  Meaningful, Truth, Law

  Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press

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• You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites
  you and what scares you everyday, not by
  trying to find your passion.

  Derek Sivers

  Passion, Everyday, Trying

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• If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich

  Su Shi

  Inspirational, Positive, Growth

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