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Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.
Sylvia Earle
You
Yourself
Wait
Care
Mirror
Else
About
Someone
Take
Doing
Up
Hold
Capable
Ask
Then
Really
Act
Initiative
I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.
Terri Irwin
God
Faith
Tremendous
All Things
Understand
Happen
Reason
Even
Things
Things Happen
Our message, without preaching, is how to treat wildlife and to have empathy for all animals.
Terri Irwin
Treat
Animals
Preaching
Our
Wildlife
Empathy
Message
Without
How
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley
Happiness
Great
Self-Respect
Peace
World
Earn
Seek
Great Thing
Much
Thing
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley
Wisdom
Importance
Who
Right
I am forever learning and changing.
W. Edwards Deming
Learning
Changing
Am
Forever
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
Success
First
Become
Step
Towards
First Step
Occupation
Very
Any
Interested
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler
Life
Old
Physician
Young
Starts
Disease
Diseases
Ends
Each
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
William Osler
Ignorance
Greater
Dogmatism
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler
Wisdom
Age
Tomorrow
Become
Yesterday
Philosophies
Foolishness
Absurd
Next
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis
Fools
Remove
Complexity
Some
Geniuses
Ignore
Avoid
Suffer
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Thought
Seen
Thinking
Everybody
Consists
Seeing
Nobody
Discovery
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Thought
Seen
Thinking
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Seeing
Nobody
Nobody Else
Discovery
The truthful man is usually a liar.
Alfred Nobel
Man
Liar
Truthful
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
Andrew Weil
Beautiful
Home
Women
Gift
Plant
Men
Men And Women
Beauty
Fragrance
Our
Recommended
Spirits
Give
Both
Both Men And Women
Lift
Long-Lasting
Bouquet
Fresh
Traditional
Keep
Flowering
Flowers
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
Ben Carson
Win
Law
School
Problems
Thinking
Solve
Law School
About
Lawyers
Learn
Got
How
Start
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
Ben Carson
Home
People
Argument
Rational
Throw
Points
Names
Because
Around
Opponents
Hammering
Which
Illogical
Keep
Thinkers
We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended. We've got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.
Ben Carson
Saying
People
Offended
Somebody
Believe
Say
About
Point
Over
Reached
Talk
Because
Got
Get
Afraid
Where
Want
Sensitivity
Might
Really
Keeps
Actually
Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
Ben Carson
You
Political
Responsibility
Take Advantage
Party
Extremely
Frankly
Having
More
Take
Advantage
Arm
Feels
Like
Particularly
Well
Understand
Political Party
Quite
Quite Frankly
Really
Uninformed
Populace
Works
Media
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
Bruce Lipton
Positive
Work
Thoughts
Happy
Mind
Subconscious
About
Could
Subconscious Mind
Get
Being
Being Happy
Your
Agree
Conscious
Conscious Mind
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
Bruce Schneier
You
Internet
First
Nothing
Ensure
Security
Computers
Answer
Am
His
Screwed
Average
Asked
Regularly
User
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Technology
Science
Science And Technology
Depend
Civilization
Crucial
Most
Arranged
Which
Elements
Profoundly
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
Carl Sagan
World
Invent
Animals
Other
Hunger
Ourselves
Hatched
Some
Cosmic
About
Constructed
Myths
Powerful
Know
Make
Course
Make Up
Understand
How
Mating
Up
Egg
Fiat
Being
Stories
After
Which
Created
Based
Imagine
We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
Carl Sagan
Life
Animals
Rich
Nothing
Community
Our
Hunt
Out
Sexual
Some
About
Small
Develop
Almost
Almost Nothing
Know
Years
Years Ago
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
Surroundings
Children
Plain
Social
Million
Start
Million Years
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin
Wish
Universe
Once
Insect
Systems
Laws
Allow
Smallest
Governed
Created
Planets
Act
Special
Whole
Nay
Satellites
Universes
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
Natural
Preserved
Slight
Variation
Selection
Term
Principle
Which
Natural Selection
Useful
Each
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