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| Violence
Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.
-- Simon Wiesenthal
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| Farmers Fail
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
-- Will Carleton
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| God Saves
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
-- John Muir
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| Death Song
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero ...
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| Take Control
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”
-- Steve Maraboli
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| Destiny
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-- William Jennings Bryan
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| What Not to Do
Let no one grieve at his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed.
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Let no one fear death, for the Death of our Savior has set us free.
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| Work
If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
-- Mark Twain
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| Get Over It
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
-- C.S. Lewis
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| Changing the World
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
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| Leaky Boat
In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
-- Warren Buffett
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| Using Talents
Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
-- Henry van Dyke
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| Training
I hated every minute of training. But I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali
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| The Greatest Mistake
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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| Where You Are
It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.
-- Bob Proctor
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| A Year From Now
A year from now you will wish you had started today.
-- Karen Lamb
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| The Telephone
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| To Be Loved
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu
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| Advanced Science
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
-- John F. Kennedy
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| Creating Joy
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
-- Pope Paul VI
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| Inventions
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
-- Mark Kennedy
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| What is Technology?
Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
-- Alan Kay
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| AI
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
-- Stephen Hawking
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| Toil
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
-- John Stuart Mill
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| Bad Craftsman
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
-- John Perry Barlow
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