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#1

“Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.”
― Bertrand Russell, What I Believe

tags: science

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#2

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement

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#3

“You can kid the world, but not your sister.”
― Charlotte Gray

tags: life, sisters

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#4

“I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: brother, brothers, family, family-love, family-relationships, love, loyalty, sibling-bond, sibling-relationships, siblings, sister, sisters, trust, twins, unconditional-love

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#5

“This pretty much summed up how things worked in my family. I preferred talk to action. My sister preferred action to thinking. And my father preferred to admire some far-off spot on the horizon that no one else could see.”
― A.E. Kaplan

tags: actions, brother, family, father, sister, talk

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#6

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
― Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind

tags: belief, bible, bitter, childish, childish-beliefs, guide, guides, home, ignorance, ignore, imagine, invade, leader, leaders, library, resentment, school, science, shame, the-bible, thought, uneducated, unimaginative, unthinking, writing

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#7

“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
― Brene Brown, I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

tags: shame

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#8

“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”
― Brené Brown

tags: shame

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#9

“You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.”
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

tags: affection, beatles, hands, love

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#10

“If “piracy” means using value from someone else’s creative property without permission from that creator–as it is increasingly described today – then every industry affected by copyright today is the product and beneficiary of a certain kind of piracy. Film, records, radio, cable TV… Extremists in this debate love to say “You wouldn’t go into Barnes & Noble and take a book off of the shelf without paying; why should it be any different with online music?” The difference is, of course, that when you take a book from Barnes & Noble, it has one less book to sell. By contrast, when you take an MP3 from a computer network, there is not one less CD that can be sold. The physics of piracy of the intangible are different from the physics of piracy of the tangible.”
― Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

tags: copyright, piracy

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#11

“There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. "Hey, YOU!" are the sea's exact words.
If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

tags: brain, call, humor, life, men, phone, pirates, sea

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#12

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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#13

“Paris at Night

Trois allumettes une à une allumées dans la nuit
La première pour voir ton visage tout entier
La seconde pour voir tes yeux
La dernière pour voir ta bouche
Et l'obscurité tout entière pour me rappeler tout cela
En te serrant dans mes bras”
― Jacques Prévert, Paroles

tags: love, matches, poems

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#14

“Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sadly, women have learned to be ashamed and apologetic about pursuits that are seen as traditionally female, such as fashion and makeup. But our society does not expect men to feel ashamed of pursuits considered generally male - sports cars, certain professional sports. In the same way, men's grooming is never suspect in the way women's grooming is - a well-dressed man does not worry that, because he is dressed well, certain assumptions might be made about his intelligence, his ability, or his seriousness. A woman, on the other hand, is always aware of how a bright lipstick or a carefully-put-together outfit might very well make others assume her to be frivolous.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

tags: fashion, femininity, feminism, makeup, misogyny, women

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#15

“Las chicas necesitan aprender lo antes posible que las habilidades relacionadas con la tecnología y la ciencia tienen más que ver con poder construir las cosas con las que soñaron y realizarlas en la vida real, así se trate de una app o de una obra de ingeniería civil. La posibilidad de hacer realidad cualquier cosa que se les cruce por la mente es el superpoder que las chicas necesitan empezar a entrenar desde temprana edad, especialmente desde los 6 años. Las profesiones en tecnología tienen que ver con innovación, con ser empáticas con los problemas reales de las personas, con ser protagonistas de una solución. No queremos que se maten en matemáticas sino más bien que se ejerciten en la resolución de problemas.”
― Sofía Contreras, Chicas en Tecnología: Reiniciando el sistema

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#16

“Thoughts can make history, but they usually don’t.”
― Charles Fernyhough, The Voices Within

tags: inner-voice, thoughts

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#17

“Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical. May not the time have come to assume a less egocentric, more general point of view and to speak of comparative epistemology?”
― Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

tags: epistemology, fact, reality, science

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#18

“It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”
― Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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#19

“The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

tags: anatomy

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#20

“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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#21

“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

tags: information, knowledge, problems

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#22

“We must design for the way people behave,
not for how we would wish them to behave.”
― Donald A. Norman, Living With Complexity

tags: design-thinking, human-computer-interaction, inspirational, interaction-design

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#23

“If the skill is easily automated, it wasn't essential.”
― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

tags: design-thinking

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#24

“Not unlike the toaster, I control darkness.”
― Christopher Moore, You Suck

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#25

“..the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: evil, good

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#26

“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#27

“There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object preventing us from seeing the truth of what is really going on beneath the surface of our attention, what will most deeply affect people's lives in time.”
― Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

tags: history, journalism, truth

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#28

“For me, finding hope is not some philosophical exercise or sentimental notion; it is a prerequisite for my survival.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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#29

“Humans are not the protagonists of this planet's story. If there is a main character, it is life itself, which makes of earth and starlight something more than earth and starlight. But in the age of the Anthropocene, humans tend to believe, despite all available evidence, that the world is here for our benefit.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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#30

“The history of science and technology has traditionally privileged innovation over the transmission, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. But it was often the less spectacular knowledge that led to the most celebrated discoveries and inventions.”
― Jürgen Renn, The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

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