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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.&#8221; Bernard Haisch &#8211; German-born American astrophysicist, and author of The God Theory, offering &#8220;a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Do not be too moral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.&#8221; Henry David Thoreau (1817 &#8211; 1862) &#8211; Author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; The lesser of two evils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You are lucky to have hornets, because if you have hornets then you will not be troubled by wasps.&#8221; Old English&#8217; Farmer Wisdom]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; The oil is running out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My father rode a camel. I drive a car. My son flies a jet aeroplane. His son will ride a camel.&#8221; Saudi saying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Good timber does not grow with ease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger wind, the stronger trees&#8221; Douglas Malloch]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Excellence then, is not an act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.&#8221; Aristotle (384 BC &#8211; 322 BC) Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, &#038; zoologist]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Buying cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Too many people buy things they don&#8217;t even need, with money they don&#8217;t even have, to impress people they don&#8217;t even like.” Ali-Azri Hassan]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-buying-cycle-525.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Wisdom &amp; Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of ass” Japanese Proverb]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-wisdom-knowledge-522.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Inclusive leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;None of us is as smart as all of us&#8221; Japanese Proverb]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-inclusive-leadership-519.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Persevere against objections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.&#8221; Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-persevere-against-objections-514.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; firewood &amp; the fire of knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a blazing fire turns firewood into ashes, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.&#8221; The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the ancient Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, but is frequently treated as a freestanding text. It is considered among the most important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.&#8221; Author: Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) Pseudo-name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens &#8211; US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit; wrote novels “Tom Sawyer” 1876, “Huckleberry Finn” 1884, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” 1889]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-forgiveness-507.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Courage to persevere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win&#8221; Mahatma Gandhi (October 2 1869 – January 30 1948) Describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism.]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211;  Thomas Edison &amp; Discontent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Discontent is the first necessity of progress.&#8221; Thomas A. Edison American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed “The Wizard of Menlo Park” by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.&#8221; Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 &#8211; 1860) German philosopher. Schopenhauer&#8217;s metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Failure is not falling down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Failure is not falling down, but staying down. Get up. Act!&#8221; Author: Unknown]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Worry;  fumbling way of looking at little things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Worry is spiritual near-sightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things and magnifying their value.” Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1864–1948) American author, and the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well.&#8221; Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135) Greek Stoic philosopher.]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Adversity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.&#8221; William Shakespeare (1564 &#8211; 1616) English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world&#8217;s pre-eminent dramatist.]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; the price you paid to get what you used to want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.&#8221; Mignon McLaughlin (1913 &#8211; 1983) American journalist and author.]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Wealth is not his who has it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.&#8221; Benjamin Franklin]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; what dies inside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.&#8221; Albert Einstein]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Apathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.&#8221; Author: Bodie Thoene]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-apathy-473.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Plato &amp; Laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws&#8221; - Plato (428 &#8211; 348 BC) Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-plato-laws-470.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; If you want to become whole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to be given everything, give everything up.&#8221; Author: Tao Te Ching or Dao [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-if-you-want-to-become-whole-464.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; normal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, the car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Art washes away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-art-washes-away-458.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; diet advice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper&#8221; Author Unknown]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-diet-advice-456.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; waking rational abilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams.&#8221; Author: Unknown .]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-waking-rational-abilities-453.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Thomas Edison, vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Vision without execution is hallucination.&#8221; Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847, October 18, 1931) American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed “The Wizard of Menlo Park” by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-thomas-edison-vision-450.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Khalil Gibran &#8211; Stand together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Stand together, yet not too near together; For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other&#8217;s shadow.&#8221; Khalil Gibran (1883 &#8211; 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Author of The Prophet, a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-khalil-gibran-stand-together-430.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Exec Frontal Lobes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules.&#8221; Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960 &#8211; ) A specialist in financial derivatives, he held a &#8220;day job&#8221; in a lengthy senior trading and financial mathematics career [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-exec-frontal-lobes-427.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; you are the window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.&#8221; George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than sixty plays. He was uniquely honoured by being awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) for his contribution to literature and an Oscar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-you-are-the-window-424.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Fate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Fate does not always call upon us at the time of our own choosing.&#8221; Author: Unknown]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-fate-421.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else&#8217;s life with perfection&#8221; The Bhagavad Gita (5th &#8211; 2nd Century BC) The Bhagavad Gita is revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism, and considered as one of the most important religious classics of the world. The teacher of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-it-is-better-to-live-your-own-destiny-imperfectly-419.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Think deeply, speak gently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Think deeply, speak gently, love much, laugh often, work hard, give freely, pay promptly, be kind&#8221; Author Unknown]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-think-deeply-speak-gently-415.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Luck is: labouring under correct knowledge&#8221; Author Unknown]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-luck-413.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; By the yard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;By the yard its hard, but inch by inch it&#8217;s a cinch.&#8221; Author Unknown.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-by-the-yard-411.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Stop for gas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying that you don’t have time to stop for gas because you are too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.” Robin Sharma (1965 &#8211; )]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-stop-for-gas-408.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Don&#8217;t compromise yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t compromise yourself; you are all you&#8217;ve got.&#8221; Janis Joplin (1943 &#8211; 1970) was an American singer, songwriter, and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; Better, Harder, Faster, Sooner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but do it better, do it harder, do it faster, and do it sooner.&#8221; Author: Brainythoughts.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-beter-harder-faster-sooner-401.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; deliberate and voluntary reduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Civilisation, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment.&#8221; Gandhi]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-deliberate-and-voluntary-reduction-399.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; hold your own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hold your own, know your name, go your own way.&#8221; Jason Mraz (1977 &#8211; ) American grammy-nominated singer-songwriter.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-hold-your-own-396.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; idleness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who may be better employed.&#8221; Socrates]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-idleness-394.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; multitudes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am large, I contain multitudes.&#8221; Walter Whitman (1819 &#8211; 1892) American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-multitudes-391.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; trueness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To thine own self be true&#8221; William Shakespeare (1564 &#8211; 1616) English playwright and poet.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-trueness-388.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; unrecognised talents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have many unrecognised talents, but my faults have somehow succeeded in securing wide recognition.&#8221; Ashleigh Brilliant (Ashley Brilliant)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thought-unrecognised-talents-385.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thoughts &#8211; Hope (Barack Obama Quote)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hope is not blind optimism. It&#8217;s not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It&#8217;s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-thoughts-hope-380.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Quote &#8211; Einstein on challenges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The significant challenges we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.&#8221; Albert Einstein]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brainythoughts.com/brainy-quote-einstein-on-challenges-376.html</link>
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		<title>Brainy Thought &#8211; What your enemy fears most</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.&#8221; Eric Hoffer (1902 &#8211; 1983) was an American social writer. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan.]]></description>
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