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When the sewage system is not cleaned up, it becomes a breeding ground for disease. It is the same for society: when the political and economic systems are not cleaned up, it becomes an environment for mental pathology to thrive.... Read more →

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The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge of the degree of perfection to which a science... Read more →

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Repeated luck is never luck - Salvor’s Father, in Foundation Read more →

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Soren Kierkegaard Read more →

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At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the word of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; and obscure monk like Luther... Read more →

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Clay is molded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing... Thus taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not ― Tao Te Ching, Chapter... Read more →

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There are as many nights as there are days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose... Read more →

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It is counterproductive to have an agile development process if you don’t have an agile product architecture - Rick Dove, Parshift.com Read more →

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Do not like some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and rocky way to heaven, While, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And heeds not his own counsel. ― Hamlet Read more →

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use - Soren Kierkegaard Read more →

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"You cannot have an execution culture without robust dialog – one that brings reality to the surface through openness, candor, and informality. Intense debate brings up all sides of an issue, even if it makes people uncomfortable." ... from ―... Read more →

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Here, Cleanthes, I find myself at ease in my argument. Here I triumph. Formerly, when we argued concerning the natural attributes of intelligence and design, I needed all my skeptical and metaphysical subtlety to elude your grasp. In many views... Read more →

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The person who gets the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The Sure-thing Boat never gets far from the shore ― Dale Carnegie Read more →

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This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but... Read more →

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions - Admiral Grace Hopper Read more →

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Genius is eternal patience. ― Michelangelo Buonarroti Read more →

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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Selected Writings of Ralph... Read more →

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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually, they will believe it - Adolf Hitler Read more →

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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military... Read more →