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I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do… — Richard Hamming
In one of the decisive battles of World War I, disastrous reports poured into the headquarters of Marshal Foch, the commander of the Allied forces.… — James Keller
Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction cannot give up the thought… — Zhuangzi
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are… — Aristotle
We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who… — Oscar de la Renta
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before. — Stephen Covey
If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change. — Jim Rohn
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can achieve awesome goals,… — Colin Powell
God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store… — Joyce Meyer
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be… — Rajneesh
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound… — Rajneesh
There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on… — Kim Campbell
Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find… — Rajneesh
We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not;… — Epictetus
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.… — Rajneesh
God is the creativity, so if you really want to enter into the world of God you will have to learn the ways of creativity… — Rajneesh
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply… — Rajneesh
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first… — Rajneesh
Be creative. Don`t be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then… — Rajneesh
The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or… — Eckhart Tolle
There are things which happen through effort, and there are things which happen only through effortlessness. There are things which will never happen through effort,… — Rajneesh
Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God.… — Rajneesh
Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because… — Rajneesh

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