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#1

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

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#2

“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.”
― Clara Barton

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#3

“The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.”
― Benjamin Zander

tags: education, inspirational

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#4

“I live on Earth at present, and I don鈥檛 know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing 鈥� a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process 鈥� an integral function of the universe.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

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#5

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement

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#6

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting

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#7

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#8

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Churchill Speaks: Collected Speeches in Peace and War, 1897-1963

tags: democracy, government

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#9

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
― Voltaire

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#10

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
― E.O. Wilson

tags: conservation, simile

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#11

“People would rather believe than know.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: activism, animals, environment, inspirational

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#12

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology

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#13

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
― E.O. Wilson

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