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The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do. Simon Sinek

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The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye. Simon Sinek

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Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong. Simon Sinek

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. Stephen Hawking

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Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Stephen Hawking

Law Will Nothing Universe Because Itself Create Gravity

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind. Stephen Hawking

Reality Mind Reach Beyond Opinion Human In My Opinion Aspect Human Mind

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. Stephen Hawking

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time. Stephen Hawking

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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. Stephen Hawking

History Science Events Reflect Has-Been Arbitrary Inspired Divinely Underlying Been Gradual May Order Happen Which Realization Manner Certain Whole

We live in a bewildering world. Stephen Hawking

World Live Bewildering

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark. Stephen Hawking

People Dark Computers Fairy Heaven Afraid Afterlife Story

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone. Stephen Hawking

Work Science Generation Inspire Building Before Young Gone Aiming Once Step New Come New Generation Scientists Continue Us Shoulders

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition. Stephen Hawking

Positive Myself Me Before Others Worse Say About Could Developed Because Still Were Condition Motor Off Than Get Disease Taught Pity Happier Much Now

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst. Sue Perkins

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. Sydney Smith

You Mistakes Nothing Only Because Greatest Little

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving. Sylvia Pankhurst

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This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. Terry Pratchett

Life Traffic Lane Fast Fast Lane

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs. Terry Pratchett

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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. Terry Pratchett

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