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PowerPoint is the scourge of critical thinking. It encourages fragmented logic by the briefer and passivity by the listener. Only a verbal narrative that logically connects a succinct problem statement using rational thinking can develop sound solutions. PowerPoint is excellent when displaying data but makes us stupid when applied to critical thinking.

— General James Mattis, Call Sign CHAOS

Life is made up of moments.

– Dr Cornel West

You don’t learn a lot from winning and succeeding. That doesn’t teach you anything compared to losing. Losing teaches you everything.

– Laird Hamilton

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

– Henry David Thoreau

This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It’s lonely. It’s small. It’s isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it. Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our hometown or even to ourselves. It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large. This is our home, and this is all we’ve got.

– Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.

– W. Shakespeare.