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| Hiding the Truth
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
-- Ismail Haniyeh
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| Flourishing Artists
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
-- John F. Kennedy
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| Creativity
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams
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| Trust and Faith
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
-- Alan Watts
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| Faith Is
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-- Saint Augustine
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| More Logic
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
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| Logic
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| Wasted Brain Matter
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
-- Albert Einstein
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| Inventing
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
-- Nikola Tesla
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| Mathletes
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
-- Danica McKellar
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| Prerequisite to Marriage
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac
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| Learn to Live
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
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| Know-It-Alls
Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.
-- Louis C. K.
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| Setting the Record Straight
For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, ...I'm here to set that record straight.
-- Allen West
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| Black Conservatism
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
-- Kanye West
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| Extremism
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| Political Divisions
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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| Learn and Move On
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
-- Danica Patrick
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| The Worst
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
-- Aristotle
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| Accepting Ideas
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle
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| Character to Follow
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
-- Epictetus
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| Generations
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
-- George Orwell
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| The Price
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
-- Vince Lombardi
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| Value
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein
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| Continuation
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
-- Winston Churchill
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