Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

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Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

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Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand. — Abraham Lincoln

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Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. – Elaine Agather

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