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“When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .”
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“One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.”
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“My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.”
Source : Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.85, BIG BYTE BOOKS
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“No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.”
Source : "Bringing Free Market Choices to Education" by John Katzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.
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“Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."”
Source : "Push, Push Against The Darkness: An Interview With Anne Waldman On The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
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“Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.”
Source : YouTube Channel "RenewableEnergyZone"/"Interview With Elon Musk Tesla Motors", www.youtube.com. January 07, 2007.
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“Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.”
Source : 1925 Villon, pt.1.
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“We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.”