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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”

― Bob Marley

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Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.

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If there is a slight chance of getting something that will make you happy, risk it. Life is too short and happiness is rare. You can't have a positive life and a negative mind. Make your personal happiness a priority.

-Joyce Meyer

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When the computer mouse was invented, it was called the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System."

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If you look at what you have in life, you will always have more but if you look at what you do not have in life, you will never have enough.

-Oprah Winfrey

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If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you'll see is called 'eigengrau.'

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Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you; it can only come from you

- Ralph Martson

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Jacuzzi is a brand name; Not the bath-tub. You can also buy Jacuzzi toilets and mattresses.

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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

― Shel Silverstein

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A study of over 11,000 children determined that an overly hygienic environment increases the risk of eczema and asthma.

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

― Robert Fulghum

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Almost 50% of adults in England can't do basic maths.
 

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No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. 

~William Ellery Channing

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In 1948, a man robbed a bank by pretending to be a public health official and giving cyanide to every bank employee as a "dysentery inoculation."

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”

― Milan Kundera

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In Spanish, the word "esposas" means both "wives" and "handcuffs."

 

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“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”

― Steve Maraboli

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In Korea, everyone is one year old from the time they are born, and everyone gets a year older on New Year's day. 

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Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, Wear your type of cloth, be diligent at your work, drink alot of water, and when you're tired, go and lie down for a happy sleep! The ignorant will laugh at you, but the wise will understand.

That it is not how well you hustle that determines your blessings; but how well God wants to bless you!

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The U.S. has won over 1,000 cumulative gold medals since the founding of the modern Olympic games in 1896.

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“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody but remember : the things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

― Stephen Chbosky

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An iPhone contains about 0.0012 ounces of gold, 0.012 ounces of silver, and 0.000012 ounces of platinum, worth $1.52, $0.24, and $0.017 respectively. 

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“I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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We can't remember much of our first few years because the hippocampus wasn't developed enough to build a rich memory of an event.

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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”

– Swami Vivekananda

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Arabic numerals, like the ones we use today in English, were actually invented in India.
 

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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

Maya Angelou

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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart"

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“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”

– Harry Palmer

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As of 2016, Bill Gates could give US$10 to every human being on Earth and still keep US$3 billion for himself.

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Anais Nin

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The first movie in color was made already in 1901.

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Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Virgil Thomson

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On July 23, 2012, the Earth had a near miss with a solar flare. Had it occurred a week earlier, it would've wiped out communication networks, GPS and electrical grids. 

 

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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman

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Alchemist Hennig Brand believed that he could distill gold from human urine. After stockpiling 1,500 gallons of urine and boiling it, he discovered phosphorus.
 

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“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

Dale Carnegie

The average time it takes for a new habit to stick is 66 days.

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“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
– Winston Churchill

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Germany had so much renewable energy on Sunday 8th May, 2016 that it had to pay people to use electricity.

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