I’m sure you have seen people in life who are so desirous of gaining attention that if they cannot have and gain attention through normal channels, through normal social channels, they will gain it through anti-social means.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
~ H. L. Mencken
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The first GSM model of the iPhone 4 was released today – June 24 – in 2010.
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Building on a Confucian tradition of respect for knowledge, a century-old tradition of university building and a ton of newfound wealth, over the past 20 years China has been steadily building a set of institutions to take on the United States for scientific leadership. But does it have the money, talent and recipe for governance required to achieve this goal?
~ Alex Usher via The World of Higher Education Podcast
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The universe is represented in every one of its particles. Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The iPhone 3GS was released today – June 19 – in 2009.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We adopt the means of non-violence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts. We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary and even risk our lives to become witnesses to the truth as we see it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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