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"The mind is like a parachute, it is not working if it isn't open. "

"If you are willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly. Edward Albee"

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"Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic. "

"Het ergste in het leven is niet dat u uw doel niet bereikt. Het ergste is geen doel hebben om te bereiken. "

"A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. Arnold H. Glasgow"

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes. Oscar Wilde"

"Ik kan niet verdwalen, want ik weet niet waar ik heen ga. Ikkyu Zenji"

"There's nothing constant in life but change. Buddha"

"A ship is safe in harbor. But that's not what ships are for. John A. Shedd"

"Inside every older person there’s a younger person wondering what happened. Ashleigh Brilliant"

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"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar. Drew Carey"

"Rain is only a problem if you don't want to get wet. "

"The years in your life are less important than the life in your years. Ralph Waldo Emerson"

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"Be aware of the high cost of low living! "

"The only real security is your ability. "

"Jouw bonus als je boven verwachting presteert op je werk? Meer werk! "

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E. E. Cummings"

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world "

"Nobody can be you but you and you're doing a great job at it. Keith Leon"

"What other people think of you is none of your business "

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"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas H. Huxley"

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. Alexander Graham Bell"

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night & in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan"

"You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. Irish Proverb"

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to be a different outcome. Albert Einstein"

"Some terrible things happened in my lifetime -- a few of which actually happened. Benjamin Franklin"

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair"

"Nobody works harder, or happier, or more productively, than people working for themselves. "

"The future does not fit in the containers of the past. Rishad Tobaccolwala"

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein"

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"My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes. Albert"

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. Alan Keightley"

"Binnen de perken zijn de mogelijkheden even onbeperkt als daarbuiten. J.A. Deelder"

"Het grootste gevaar is niet dat we te hoog mikken en missen, maar dat we te laag mikken en raken. Michelangelo"

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. George Carlin"

"Life is change, growth is optional. "

"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. Benjamin Franklin"

"You don't have to be Great to get started, but you have to get started to be Great. Les Brown"

"Work at least as hard on yourself as you do on your work. Jim Rowan"

"You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. Joan Baez"

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"I´ve been promoted to middle management. I never thought I´d sink so low. Tim Gould"

"Chase your passion, not your pension. Denis Waitley"

"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John Maxwell"

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Laurence J. Peter"

"That is what learning is: you suddenly understand something you've known your whole life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing"

"I have learned that following what you love magnifies your talent. You just have to have the faith to invest in it. Leslie Rector"

"We can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see. "

"If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead. Gusteau"

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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn"

"The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person. Bo Bennett"

"The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Thomas Troward"

"It is observed that succesful people get ahead in the time that other people waste. Henry Ford"

"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can. Henry Ford"

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose. Mary Shelley"

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. Salvador Dali"

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle"

"Some people think it is holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it is letting go. Sylvia Robinson"

"You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous. Bob Black"

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"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. Unknown"

"The clever try to change the world. The wise try to change themselves. Unknown"

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw"

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph W. Emerson"

"You are your own patron, benefactor, wise aunt. You are the one who must plan your great adventures-and make your great escapes. Eric Maisel"

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretzky"

Quotes about Work (21)

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser"

"I would rather have a life of "oh wells" than a life of "what ifs". "

"It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. Sam Ewing"

"When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid. Oprah Winfrey"

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau"

"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri-Frédéric Amiel"

"Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place. Hal Lancaster"

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. David McCullough"

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell"

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle"

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"You cannot be creative and conform, too.  You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative. Arno Penzias"

"The thing about quotes on the internet is you can not confirm their validity. Abraham Lincoln"

"Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive. Donald Trump"

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell"

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain"

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi"

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"Consider the postage stamp. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. Josh Billings"

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt"

"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle"

"We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up, and be going! John Eliot"

"We can achieve what we can conceive and belief. Mark Twain"

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the level of thinking that created them. Albert Einstein"

"Impossible only means that you have not found the solution yet. Anonymous"

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. Sarah Ban Breathnach"

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"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. Mahatma Gandhi"

"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. Thomas Szasz"

"If you start to think the problem is out there, stop yourself. That thought is the problem. Stephen Covey"

"Fast running is no quarantee for reaching your goals or destination. "

"Success is an Inside Job. Wayne Dyer"

"Regardless of your qualifications, there is 1 thing that no one can give you or take away: the will to keep going. Chris Guillebeau"

"The Prosperous Heart thrives on adventure. New sights and sounds feed a feeling of abundance. Julia Cameron"

"A year from now you may wish you had started today. Karen Lamb"

"Create your future from your future, not from your past. Werner Erhard"

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you are the pilot. Michael Altshuler"

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"Theory is important, at least in theory. Keith Martin"

"My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you are doing. Jessica Alba"

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Richard Feynman"

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Wernher Von Braun"

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. Marcus Aurelius"

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Picasso"

"Action is the foundational key to all success. Picasso"

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"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker"

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Mark Twain"

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford"

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford"

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz"

"Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world. Robert Orben"

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers"

"If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving. Henry Youngman"

"Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent. Josiah Stamp"

"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard"

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"Het leven plaats je voor deuren. Richt je op deuren die je opnieuw voor je neus krijgt; hoe kun je er deze keer wel doorheen? "

"To be responsible is to be free. To give responsibility to somebody else is to be a prisoner. Osho"

"Niemand kan je minderwaardig doen voelen zonder jouw toestemming. Eleanor Roosevelt"

"You thought Yourself a part, small, whereas in You there is a Universe, the Greatest. Ibn Arabi"

"Wegens de economische crisis is het licht aan het einde van de tunnel tijdelijk uitgeschakeld. "

"I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. Allen H. Neuharth"

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohm"

"It's your choice; you change the world or the world changes you. Zor"

"Create your own reality, don't live in someone else's. Henrik Palmgren"

"The hardest part is starting so get that out of the way as soon as possible. Matt Mullenweg"

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"Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. E. Nightingale"

"Wanneer je met beide voeten op de grond blijft staan kom je nooit vooruit. "

"Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. Anonymous"

"People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours. "

"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work. Sister Mary Lauretta"

"If you want to change the world, don't join the Peace Corps. Start a business. Paul Hawken"

"Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is the state of mind of people who want to alter the future. Guy Kawasaki"

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. ... I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell"

"Failure is not nearly as glamorous as it looks. "

"You don't have to live your life the way other people expect you to. Chris Guillebeau"

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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time. It is regret for things we did not do that are inconsolable. Sydney J. Harris"

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Emerson"

"We zorgen er vooraf al voor dat we achteraf niet kunnen weten hoe goed de opties waren die we niet gekozen hebben. Caspar Chorus"

"I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing. "

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Rohn"

"Live, so you do not have to look back and say: God, how I have wasted my life. Elisabeth Kübler Ross"

"We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. Les Brown"

"It is not reality that makes you suffer. It is your own view on reality that does. Nin Sheng"

"Het vermogen tot loslaten is essentieel in een wereld waarin alles van voorbijgaande aard is. "

"Each day comes with 86.400 seconds. tick tock tick tock... "

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"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. Horace Mann"

"Als je je door meningen van anderen laat leiden, zul je nooit een eigen verlangen hebben. Napoleon Hill"

"For many, fear of criticism is stronger than the desire for success. "

"Vergaderingen zijn onmisbaar als je geen zin hebt iets te doen. John Kenneth Galbraith"

"I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It's because of them I did it myself. Albert Einstein"

"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people but because of the silence of good people. Napoleon"

"Als ik harder werk, krijg ik niet meer betaald. Als ik minder hard werk krijg ik niet minder betaald.. conclusie? "

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda"

"Onderwijs is de inprenting van het onbegrijpelijke in onwetenden door de incompetenten. Josiah Stamp"

"Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty. Frank Zappa"

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"I've found that following what you love magnifies your talent. You just have to have faith to invest in it. Leslie Rector"

"Whatever happens, take responsibility. Tony Robbins"

"The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr"

"Freedom means nothing if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes. Ghandi"

"De mogelijkheden zijn onbeperkt op het moment dat we besluiten zelf te handelen in plaats van te reageren. GB Shaw"

"You can't expect to be old & wise if you were never young & crazy. "

"De herinnering die je later wilt hebben, moet je nu maken. Johan Cruijff"

"You will be judged or you will be ignored. Those are pretty much the only two choices. Up to you. "

"Je hebt hersenen in je hoofd. Je hebt voeten in je schoenen. Je kunt zelf bepalen welke richting je op gaat. Dr. Seuss"

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill"

Quotes About Work (10)

Quotes About Work (10)

"People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely. Hans F. Hansen"

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. Victor Kiam"

"Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. Johnny Depp"

"It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe. It don’t matter anyhow. Bob Dylan"

"That little word 'but’ is the difference between success and failure. Sgt Bilko"

"Take risks: If you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. "

"Vreugde ontstaat door het loslaten van onhoudbare, stressvolle situaties, hierdoor ontstaat ruimte voor stralende creaties! "

"If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. Lao Tzu"

"Als je van je hobby je beroep maakt, hoef je nooit meer te werken. "

"Werk is net als een beer in het bos. Als je morgen terugkomt, is hij er nog steeds. Russisch gezegde"

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Quotes About Work (9)

"When things aren't adding up in your life, start subtracting. "

"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. Bob Moawad"

"There is always, always, always something to be thankful for. "

"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. "

"It's not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are. Roy E. Disney"

"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. Oscar Wilde"

"Someday is not a day of the week! "

"Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along. Rae Smith"

"I have learnt that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. Philip Yancey"

"Not till we are lost... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau"

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Quotes About Work (8)

"Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. Tom Hopkins"

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi"

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. jackson Brown Jr"

"Talk doesn't cook rice. Chinese Proverb"

"When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. Jane Fonda"

"Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant. Carrie Latet"

"All great changes are preceded by chaos. "

"We are a product of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. "

"Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you. "

"Don't shrink your dreams. Super-size your courage and abilities. Karen Salmansohn"

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Quotes About Work (7)

"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body. George Carlin"

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin"

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius"

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius"

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell"

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Elizabeth Kenny"

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama"

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Havelock Ellis"

"The best road to progress is freedom's road. John F. Kennedy"


"Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes"

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Quotes About Work (6)

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. Carl Jung"

"But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself. Carl Jung"

"I am not what happened to me: I am what I choose to become. Carl Jung"

"Alleen als jij flexibel bent, zal je overleven. De buigzame wilg overleeft een orkaan beter dan de stugge eik. Igor Ledochowski"

"Door veel te begrijpen heb ik niets bereikt. Hugo de Groot"

"And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? Pink Floyd"

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn"

"When you decide to jump out of the boat, you rock the boat. Mary Morrissey"

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt"

"If I don’t know my options, I don’t have any. Diana Korte"

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Quotes About Work (5)

"Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego & to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. Carl Jung"

"Sensation tells us a thing is. Thinking tells us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. Carl Jung"

"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung"

"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security & calm that is not easily disturbed. Carl Jung"

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung"

"The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung"

"To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. Carl Jung"

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung"

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung"

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung"

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Quotes About Work (4)

"The collaboration of the unconscious is intelligent and purposive, even when it acts in opposition to consciousness. Carl Jung"

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. Carl Jung"

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination? Carl Jung"

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung"

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. Carl Jung"

"The greatest most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Jung"

"The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung"

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung"

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung"

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. Carl Jung"

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Quotes About Work (3)

"Companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others. Carl Jung"

"I have no illusions about the difficulty of human nature. Anything, if it is something good, will demand all your patience. Carl Jung"

"The whole of yourself is certainly an irrational entity, but this is just precisely yourself; unique and unrepeatable. Carl Jung"

"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own. Rumi"

"Discovering yourself provides you with all you are, were meant to be, and all you are living from and for. Carl Jung"

"Is there anything more fundamental than the realization, "This is what I am"? Carl Jung"

"The achievement of personality... is an act of high courage flung in the face of life. Carl Jung"

"We never appreciate how dependent we are on "lucky" ideas, until we find to our distress that they will not come. Carl Jung"

"The conscious mind is always in danger of becoming one-sided, of keeping to well-worn paths and getting stuck in blind alleys. Carl Jung"

"Our minds have been made by the history of mankind: what humans have thought has influenced the structure of our own minds. Carl Jung"

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Quotes About Work (2)

"Een soldaat zal lang en intens vechten voor een kleurig lintje. Napoleon Bonaparte"

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. James Baldwin"

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin"

"If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you. Jim Rohn"

"Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! E. Nightingale"

"Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. Benjamin Disraeli"

"Wishes are like seeds - few ever develop into something. Michael Garofalo"

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. George S. Patton"

"When I do and say what everyone else says and does, then no one calls me irresponsible. But at that time, I am. Barry Stevens"

"We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning. Carl Jung"


"Self-awareness is the best weapon against the devastating influence of mass psyche. Mass man breeds mass catastrophe. Carl Jung"

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Quotes About Work (1)

"Critical thinking is useless without critical action. B. Schaart"

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

"When it's uncomfortable, when its unpopular, even when its dangerous to speak the truth, is the precise time that the truth should be spoken. "

"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone. Hans F. Hansen"

"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Gandhi"

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti"

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. George Bernard Shaw"

"Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. Plato"

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley"

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. Howard Zinn"