Dr Wingnut

Year: 2010

  • Believe

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    Believe you can and you’re halfway there.Theodore Roosevelt

  • Fail faster

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    Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.Henry Ford

  • Intelligence

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    It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.Stephen Hawking

  • Sermon on the mountain bike

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    And it came to pass that a supernumerary responded to several angry letters in the Villager.  For these words came to him as he pedaled along an avenue:Blessed be the bikers, for they are exercising and emitting no fumes.  (For it is written that their numbers shall increase and multiply, even in winter.)Blessed be the…

  • Space Invaders

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    It’s a special weakness of our rich country to believe that we can barricade ourselves into safety—that if we just increase airport security, extremists can’t attack us; that gated communities keep predators away from our kids; that with constant vigilance, we can keep bedbugs out.Joel Stein, Time, 18-October-2010

  • Discipline

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    A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.Jim Collins

  • Blog Action Day — Water

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    Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.  Unclean drinking water can incubate some pretty scary diseases, like E. coli, salmonella, cholera and hepatitis A.  Given that bouquet of bacteria, it’s no surprise that water, or rather lack thereof, causes 42,000 deaths each week.More…