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Tupac Shakur154

rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Andrzej Majewski13

Polish writer and photographer 1966

Kurt Cobain156

American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

Cornelius Keagon25

Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996

Sukavich Rangsitpol31

Thai politician 1935

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„The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makres real advances in science.“

—  Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

http://umich.edu/~scps/html/01chap/html/summary.htm
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and Religion (1999)

Science, Mathematics, Problem, Question

„The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.“

—  Edward R. Murrow Television journalist 1908 - 1965

On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York (28 October 1964)

Speed, Communication

„He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.“

—  Diogenes Laërtius biographer of ancient Greek philosophers 180 - 240

Socrates, 14.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

Evil, Knowledge

„The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.“

—  Herodotus ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian -484 - -425 BC

The words of Socrates, as quoted by Diogenes Laertius.
Misattributed

Evil, Knowledge

„The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.“

—  Heraclitus pre-Socratic Greek philosopher -535

Fragment 32
Numbered fragments
Original: (el) ἓν τὸ σοφὸν μοῦνον λέγεσθαι οὐκ ἐθέλει καὶ ἐθέλει Ζηνὸς ὄνομα

„There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.“

—  Socrates classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470 - -399 BC

Socrates II: xxxi http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=D.+L.+2.5.31&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0257#note-link14. Original Greek: ἓν μόνον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, τὴν ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἓν μόνον κακόν, τὴν ἀμαθίαν
Diogenes Laertius
Variant: The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Evil, Knowledge

„Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.“

—  Paracelsus Swiss physician and alchemist 1493 - 1541

Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

„Marxist philosophy holds that the law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe. This law operates universally, whether in the natural world, in human society, or in man's thinking. Between the opposites in a contradiction there is at once unity and struggle, and it is this that impels things to move and change. Contradictions exist everywhere, but they differ in accordance with the different nature of different things. In any given phenomenon or thing, the unity of opposites is conditional, temporary and transitory, and hence relative, whereas the struggle of opposites is absolute.“

—  Mao Zedong Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China 1893 - 1976

On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

Change, Universe, Thinking, Nature

„Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.“

—  Hunter S. Thompson American journalist and author 1937 - 2005

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Fear

„I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.“

—  Terry Pratchett, book Sourcery

Source: Sourcery

Cats, World, Death

„It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.“

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Cited as an example of "What Mark Twain Didn't Say" in Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward, et al.
Misattributed
Variant: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Appearance, Stupidity

„There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.“

—  Dante Alighieri, book Inferno

Canto V, lines 121–123 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

Happiness, Time

„There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.“

—  Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Time, Reality, Pain

„The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.“

—  Henry Beston, book The Outermost House

p. 57: Ch. 3 http://books.google.com/books?lr=&id=edhCAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+three+great+elemental+sounds+in+nature+are+the+sound+of+rain+the+sound+of+wind+in+a+primeval+wood+and+the+sound+of+outer+ocean+on+a+beach%22&pg=PA57#v=onepage
The Outermost House, 1928

Nature, Beauty

„While the others had got married and moved out to suburbia, I had stayed in London and got into the arts scene through friends like Robert Fraser and Barry Miles and papers like The International Times. We opened the Indica gallery with John Dunbar, Peter Asher and people like that. I heard about people like John Cage, and that he’d just performed a piece of music called 4’33” (which is completely silent) during which if someone in the audience coughed he would say, ‘See?’ Or someone would boo and he’d say, ‘See? It’s not silence—it’s music.’ I was intrigued by all of that. So these things started to be part of my life. I was listening to Stockhausen; one piece was all little plink-plonks and interesting ideas. Perhaps our audience wouldn’t mind a bit of change, we thought, and anyway, tough if they do! We only ever followed our own noses—most of the time, anyway. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ was one example of developing an idea.“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 212

Parting, Time, Change, Silence

„The dance around the golden calf of identity is the last and greatest orgy of counterenlightenment. Identity is the magic word of a partially hidden, partially open conservatism that has inscribed personal identity, occupational identity, national identity, political identity, female identity, male identity, class identity, party identity, etc., on its banner.“

—  Peter Sloterdijk German philosopher 1947

Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), pp. 60-61

Personality, Dance

„Is your voice “silence”?
When you are not singing a song then I hear your song’s melody clearly!
Your voice is silence. Is your face “darkness”?
When I shut my eyes then I see your face clearly!
Your face is darkness.Is your shadow “light”?
Your shadow is cast on the dark window after the moon has gone down!
Your shadow is light.“

—  Han Yong-un Korean writer 1879 - 1944

"Inverse Proportion", translated by Sammy Solberg

Singing, Silence, Light

„…she was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, book The Lucky One

Elizabeth Green, Chapter 15, Beth, p. 274
Variant: Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)
Source: 2000s, The Lucky One (2008)

Truth, People

„Nobody seen form. It's state of mind where you are confident and you think very positively.“

—  MS Dhoni Indian cricket player 1981

Half the battle is in your head.What dhoni think about form. https://www.scoopwhoop.com/sports/ms-dhoni/

Thinking, Confidence

„When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less. Each thing, from the single grain of Dust to the strongest eldil, is the end and the final cause of all creation and the mirror in which the beam of His brightness comes to rest and so returns to Him. Blessed be He!“

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book Perelandra

Perelandra (1943)

World, Men

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