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• The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations - in the same time and place, Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. . . . Science thrives on, indeed requires, the free exchange of ideas; its values are antithetical to secrecy. Science holds to no special vantage points or privileged positions. Both science and democracy encourage unconventional opinions and vigorous debate. Both demand adequate reason, coherent argument, rigorous standards of evidence and honesty.

  Carl Sagan

  Honesty, Ideas, Democracy

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• While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Art, Dark, Tragedy

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• Companies thrive on the basis of the stories they tell.

  Jay Abraham

  Stories, Company, Bases

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• It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.

  Joseph Cook

  Mediocrity, Talent, Tact

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• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Blood, Hands

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• For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Distance, Native American, White

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• Now all the youth of England are on fire,
  And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;
  Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought
  Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, War, Men

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

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• I love producing my kids and my wife's TV show. I love doing that. I think that's my most natural space in the business. I would say the most natural space for me is producing or editing. That's just where I thrive.

  Willi Smith

  Kids, Thinking, Editing

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• Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?

  Ali Sina

  Country, Lying, Mean

  Source: myislam.dk

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• True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Struggle, Differences, Tolerance

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• Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

  Pema Chodron

  Reality, Enlightenment, Spirituality

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• The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

  Herbert Spencer

  Law, Giving, Survival

  "Mr. Martineau on Evolution" (1872) See Darwin 7; Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5

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• Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Commodity, Selling

  "Dictator lit: Castro's clunking Che memoir", www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, Suffering, Together

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.18, Penguin

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• Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.

  Adrian Peterson

  Adversity, Nfl, Able

  "Run Like Adrian Peterson". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. November 14, 2011.

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• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

  Gavin Newsom

  San Francisco, Use, Small Business

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• We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Special, Snowflake, Fight Club Book

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

  Brandon Boyd

  Thinking, Perhaps Love, And Love

  "White Fluffy Clouds: Found Inspiration Moving Forward". Book by Brandon Boyd, 2003.

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• Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Mother, Spring

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.351

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• In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that will allow us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.

  Kent Nerburn

  Perfect, Greed, Balance

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

  Laozi

  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Space, Overcoming

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (2004). “The Aims Of Astronautics”, p.38, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Men, Hypocrisy

  "The Satanic Bible" Anton Szandor LaVey, As quoted in the Introduction by Burton H. Wolfe, 1969.

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• The bed of flowers
  Loosens amain,
  The beauteous snowdrops
  Droop o'er the plain.
  The crocus opens
  Its glowing bud,
  Like emeralds others,
  Others, like blood.
  With saucy gesture
  Primroses flare,
  And roguish violets,
  Hidden with care;
  And whatsoever
  There stirs and strives,
  The Spring's contented,
  If works and thrives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Flower, Glowing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.2888, Delphi Classics

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• By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

  Sallust

  Unity, Unions, States

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