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M.J. DeMarco
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July 10 - July 31, 2017
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. ~ Dresden James, Author
The problem is not people being educated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they’ve been taught, but not educated enough to question what they’ve been taught. ~ Author Unknown
If I accept average advice from average people living average lives, can I expect to be anything but average?
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. ~ Ayn Rand, Author
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. ~ J.K. Rowling, Author
The shortcut scam is the idea that extraordinary results can be achieved by uncovering a secret bypass or a miracle weapon, and such can skirt the real hard work that actually creates the extraordinary results.
There isn’t anything in the world that can’t be made better. ~ Jack Valenti, Businessman
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things that you want to see happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect