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trend·set·ter
/ˈtren(d)ˌsedər/
noun
noun: trend-setter
a person who leads the way in fashion or ideas.

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“Teach the truth to all of our youths.”

— RZA

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THE NET HIJACKS THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

Ogilvy’s Thomas Crampton Argues for the Motion that the Internet Is Making Us Stupid

“The internet has been an amazing revolution in opening the access to knowledge, but its design fundamentally distracts and interrupts our thinking to the point of making us stupid.”

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“You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.”

— Alice Walker

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“Man is the cruelest animal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are.”

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We should tell ourselves we’re ignorant | Emma Kay Tocci | TEDxNYUAD

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A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”

“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

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“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That’s my intent.”

— Saul Bass

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In Buddhism, enlightenment (called bodhi in Indian Buddhism, or satori in Zen Buddhism) is when a Buddhist finds the truth about life and stops being reborn because they have reached Nirvana. Once you get to Nirvana you are not born again into samsara (which is suffering).

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“Mind your own business” is a common derogatory English saying which asks for a respect of other people’s privacy. It strongly suggests that a person should stop interfering in what does not affect themselves.

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“It’s not about what I want, it’s about what’s fair! You thought we could be decent men in an indecent time. But you were wrong. The world is cruel. And the only morality in a cruel world… is chance. Unbiased. Unprejudiced. Fair.”

―Two-Face to Batman

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“In physics, a unified field theory (UFT) is a type of field theory that allows all that is usually thought of as fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of a pair of physical and virtual fields. According to the modern discoveries in physics, forces are not transmitted directly between interacting objects but instead are described and interpreted by intermediary entities called fields.”