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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
-- Benjamin Franklin

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One of the greatest problems in medicine is the collusion between academics seeking money and industry in search of a plausible narrative for selling products. ...The role of academe is to question lucrative dogma, not to join the feeding frenzy.
-- Richard Lehman

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Only dead fish follow the stream.
-- Finnish Aphorism

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Toss it back and forth long enough and a nugget of conventional wisdom eventually comes to be treated as fact.
-- John Gruber (Daring Fireball)

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I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein

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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
-- Paul Tillich

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
-- Albert Einstein

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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
-- John Maynard Keynes

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Don't regret anything in life. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience! When you win, you win. When you lose, you learn.
-- Richard Feynman

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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
-- Helen Keller

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei

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This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
-- Susan Polis Schutz

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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
-- George Iles

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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley

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Doctors are men who prescribe medicine of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of which they know nothing.
-- Voltaire

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If you can describe a job precisely, or write rules for doing it, it's unlikely to survive. Either we'll program a computer to do it, or we'll teach a foreigner to do it.
-- Frank Levy (MIT economist)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrankLevy #Automation

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Priorities are easy. 'Posteriorities' -- what jobs not to tackle -- are tough.
-- Peter Drucker

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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
-- Bertrand Russell

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The ideas that liberate one generation become the shackles of the next.
-- Isaiah Berlin

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If you can listen to everything, you may end up hearing nothing.
-- Bernard Holland

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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

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The inexhaustible pages of nature... written over and over uncountable times, written in characters of every size and color, sentences composed of sentences, every part of a character a sentence.
-- John Muir

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Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens

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Metadata is surveillance.
-- Bruce Schneier (Data and Goliath)

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Human attention certainly behaves like an economic good in the sense that we buy it and measure it. On an individual level, we're deeply aware when we don't have enough of it.
-- Thomas H. Davenport ((Harvard Business Review Sep/Oct 2000))

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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
-- Albert Einstein

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Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.
-- Egon Schiele

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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein

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Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.
-- Zadie Smith (On Optimism and Despair)

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As a nation, be began by declaring that 'all men are created equal'.... When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty &mdash to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

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To be intelligible is to be found out.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Scientists and politicians are different in many ways of course. For instance, scientists are philosophically opposed to having 100% confidence in anything, whereas many politicians proclaim 100% confidence in their policies. Politicians say they get their authority from voters. Scientists say they get their authority from evidence and logic.
-- Eric Roston (BloombergQuint Jul 20 2020)

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This will be the generation where the technology disappears into the tool, serving valuable functions but keeping out of the way -- the generation of the invisible computer.
-- Donald Norman

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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
-- Eric Hoffer

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-- Marcus Aurelius

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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-- Cicero

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell

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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-- Goethe

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The things that we love tell us what we are.
-- Thomas Aquinas

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Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
-- John Dewey

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Every action done in company ought to be done with some sign of respect to those that are present.
-- The Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour ((circa 1595))

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Poverty exists, not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
-- Anonymous

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The medium is the metaphor.
-- Neil Postman

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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.... The most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
-- Albert Camus

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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
-- Norman Borlaug

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The Three Great Premises: 1) Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units. 2) Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough. Fact is that which enough people believe. 3) Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it.
-- Charles Pierce (Idiot America)

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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-- E. M. Forster

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EMForster #Life

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
-- Mike Murdock

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
-- Peter Drucker

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The way to protect human freedom is to make sure that your society is one in which the benefits of being a member of the society are so tempting and so great that people will take responsibility in order for it to happen.
-- Daniel Dennett

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