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What is the most inspirational thing you saw or heard that changed your life? (lemy.lol)

submitted 8 months ago by TVgog56789@lemy.lol to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it was these.

"A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius"

"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter"

These two quotes really helped get my @** in gear.

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well not really. That is great man theory bs.

Newton did not "invent" gravity, it is an immutable law of the universe, no more did Marx "invent" socialism or the labor theory of value.

In both cases they observed actions and reactions that were testable and quantifiable and in both cases they were not the only ones to reach the same conclusions.

If anything the Gould quote is saying the opposite. That having so many people confined and coerced into such labors for the sole purpose of maximizing profits for a single individual, we are robbing ourselves of many great minds.