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    Chögyam Trungpa
    “The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
    ― Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
    tags: warriorship
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    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “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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    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
    tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress
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    Bill Gates
    “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
    ― Bill Gates
    tags: bill-gates, inspirational, life
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    H.G. Wells
    “Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”
    ― H. G. Wells
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    Horace Mann
    “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.”
    ― Horace Mann
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    Woodrow Wilson
    “We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.”
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    tags: american-education, class, education, sad-but-true, society, work
    47 likes

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    Richard P. Feynman
    “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
    ― Richard Feynman
    tags: answers, questions, science
    660 likes

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    James Baldwin
    “The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
    ― James Baldwin
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    Tennessee Williams
    “The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
    tags: flowers, violets
    325 likes

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    Upton Sinclair
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
    tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding
    1205 likes

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    Thomas J. Watson Jr.
    “Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. ”
    ― Thomas J. Watson
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: censorship
    1518 likes

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    James Frey
    “Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ”
    ― James Frey, My Friend Leonard
    tags: control, pain, suffering, withstand
    416 likes



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