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Quotes:

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate." - Mark Twain.

"The bigger the dream, the bigger the person you must become to achieve it." - John C. Maxwell.

"The greatest tragedy of life is not that we set high aim and miss it, but that we set low aim and reach it." - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney.

"Don't ever give up on your dreams and when someone tells you, "It cannot be done," it doesn't mean you cannot do it; it simply means you cannot do it with them. Don't ever let somebody tell you,

"You cannot do something." You have a dream you have to protect and the right to live your dream is in your hands." - Gbenga Adebambo.

"There is also something especially boring and mindless about the notion that just because a movie has a powerful female in it that it must therefore be about female empowerment or that because it has a diverse cast that it is about embracing diversity. It is the equivalent of a comedian talking about jokes instead of telling them." - Joe Hildebrand.

"This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke, and all that stuff - you should get over that quickly. The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws." - Barack Obama.

"Increasingly, critical theories resemble rigid ideologies that have jumped the rails, and whose main contribution to society is moral outrage, all the time." - Christopher J. Ferguson.

"Often the very fact some people are outraged is considered evidence that the target is "problematic." This argument is a strange tautology, a kind of Mobius loop of aggressive morality. "I'm offended by orcs because they are racist." Well, how can you be sure they are racist? "They are racist because people find them offensive." - Christopher J. Ferguson.

"This negativity bias, the ability to filter anything through the worst possible lens, often as part of a kind of performative virtue, achieves very little other than to contribute to polarization in our society today. The irony is that often, the very people who claim to be concerned about race or gender will use race and gender to silence anyone who disagrees with their ideology (either because they are white or male or because black or brown people aren't speaking with black or brown voices)." - Christopher J. Ferguson.

"Socialists would say I'm a 'wage slave.' But my employer PAYS me money based on a voluntary agreement I chose, which enables me to feed my family. Conversely, the state TAKES my money against my will to pay for things I oppose or don't benefit from. Who is more my oppressor?" - Bradley Thomas.

"The good thing about science is that it's true, whether one believes in it or not" - Neil deGrasse Tyson.

"Capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. With the rise of capitalism, it became possible to amass great wealth by serving and pleasing your fellow man." - Walter E.Williams.

"What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them." - Michio Kaku.

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan.

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell.

"Truth is treason in an empire of lies." - George Orwell.

"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority." - Booker T. Washington.

"Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself." - Ayn Rand.

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh.

"The loudness of blame can stupefy our good judgement." - Adam Smith.

"Everything before the word 'but' is horseshit." - Jon Snow.

"I spent a lot of money on booze, women and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best (English footballer)

"War does not determine who is right. Only who is left." - Winston Churchill.

"The left demands apologies for who you are, not what you have done, because it bases morality on collective identity, not individual behaviour. This leaves them free as individuals to behave however they like, as long as their group affiliation if virtuous." - Alice Smith.

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer." - Albert Einstein.

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." - Albert Einstein.

"You never fail until you stop trying." - Albert Einstein.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein.