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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. Louis Pasteur
Me Respect Become Approach Inspires Tenderness He Child May Sentiments Two
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. Margaret Mead
Love Prayer Song Dance Energy Neither Does Up Artificial Any Burn Fuel Use Fossil Fossil Fuel
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Margaret Mead
Good Evil Must Temporarily Never Accept Label May Lesser Necessary Necessary Evil
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. Maxwell Maltz
Game Yourself Destroy Objective Primary Name Self-Improvement Opponent Your Strengthen
Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it. Michael Merzenich
Work Day Progress Every Born Slowly How Continuously Brain Improving Die Declining Use Your Plastic Function
Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer. Mohamed ElBaradei
Training Discipline Lawyer Part Professional
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
War You Money Advice Broker General Take Never Never Take Tie Bankrupt Anyone Ask
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Education Learning Too Much College Enjoy Too Mark Mark Zuckerberg Worry Jobs About Finish Emphasis Steve Steve Jobs Grades Children Formal Formal Education Placed Much Bill Bill Gates Gates
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Our Cosmic Look Force Up Wonder Curiosity May Illuminate
We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Today You Tomorrow Live Think Earth About Most Make Might Speck
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? Neil deGrasse Tyson
Future You Matter Space Will Black Fall Universe Black Hole See Emerge Entire Fell Another Singularity Front Just Unfold Hole Realize Created Moments
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. Neil deGrasse Tyson
You Kids More Allowed Stuff Know Doing Often Break Should Exploration Consequence
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children. Neil deGrasse Tyson
World Kids Born About Adult Primarily Thwart Curiosity Curious Children Presence
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation. Neil deGrasse Tyson
You Generation People School Tomorrow Invent Way System Out Exams Only Written School System Another Provided Trained Break Who
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Me History You Black Think Month Must Black History Only Failing Educator
If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself. Niklas Zennstrom
Home Morning You Yourself Entrepreneur Wake Up Job First Emails Defines About Something Lifestyle Read First Thing Wake Up Forget Hugely Send Going Going Home Rewarding Middle Want Fulfilling Thing Vacations Last Night
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. Orlando Aloysius Battista
Time Best Day Few Minutes Give Parent His Children Inheritance Each Each Day
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. Paracelsus
Art Health Nature Healing Mind Physician Must Open Open Mind Therefore Start
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose. Richard Dawkins
Complicated Biology Complicated Things Having Purpose Study Been Appearance Things Designed
Natural selection is anything but random. Richard Dawkins
Natural Random Selection Anything Natural Selection
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. Richard Dawkins
Change Creativity Internet Random Meme Memes Darwinian Deliberately Selection Attempt Instead Idea Genes Hijacking Altered Spreading Version Accuracy Human Form Original Original Idea Copying
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. Richard Dawkins
Mathematics Ignorance Science Become Incompetence Claim Remark Almost Nobody Cliche Acceptable Proudly Literature Boast Socially
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Richard Dawkins
God Monster Thor Flying We Cannot Fairies Course Just Cannot Spaghetti Disprove
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. Richard Dawkins
Day Our Sun Though Ourselves Some Small Shall Count Coming Existence Decades Get Die Us Should Lucky Even Each Chance Chances
How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'? Richard Dawkins
You Comforting Seriously Believe Finds Someone Something Take He Likes Because How Who
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. Rita Levi-Montalcini
Would Never Had Nobel Nobel Prize Been Persecution Discriminated Prize Against Suffered Received
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