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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

- D. Kahneman

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’"

- I. Asimov

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“Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and fate is that which we run into.”

-W. Earp

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“So read your books; but stay out late some nights.”

- C. Bassam

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"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.”

- M. Levi

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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

-O. Winfrey

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HISTORY HAS THRUST UPON OUR GENERATION AN INDESCRIBABLY IMPORTANT DESTINY.

TO COMPLETE A PROCESS OF DEMOCRATIZATION WHICH OUR NATION HAS TOO LONG DEVELOPED TOO SEOWLY BUT WHICH IS THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON FOR WORLD RESPECT AND EMÜLATION.

HOW WE DEAL WITH THIS CRUCIAL SITUATION WILL DETERMINE OUR MORAL HEALTH AS INDIVIDUALS, OUR CULTURAL HEALTH AS A REGION OUR POLITICAL HEALTH AS A NATION, AND OUR PRESTIGE AS ALEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.

- M.L. King Jr.

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“Once when asked if he believed in God and to which religion does he belong, he answered: "In my heart I am deeply religious, though not in the orthodox sense of that word”

- N. Tesla

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“If you are waiting for an inheritance; you don’t deserve one.”

- M. McGirr

#morgan

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“You are only someone because you are one of some.”

- D. Aaron

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“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ...”

W. Earp

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“They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race."

- M. Crichton

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“Sometimes people care nothing about future or profit; sometimes, we only want to satisfy a desire, right here, right now, no matter what.”

-E. Salcedo-Albarán

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"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

- H.S. Truman

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"Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded forever."

- H. Melville

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“I don’t want the face of America abroad to be a soldier with a gun; I want them to be a peacecore volunteer.”

- J.F. Kennedy

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“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning: 'That path leads ever down into stagnation”

- F. Herbert