I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone. ― Robin Williams

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The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

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If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference. ― Robin Williams

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There are no rules. Just follow your heart. ― Robin Williams

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Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming

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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ― Robin Williams

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There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot. ― Robin Williams

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remember to look up at the stars

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the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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