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“Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

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Joseph Heller was an American novelist known for his satirical and black humor style. His novel 'Catch-22' is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century and has had a profound impact on literature. more

“You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.”

Ifs World Humans Whole Together Law Dies Choices Process Human Beings Forever Environment Creatures Fellows Working Together Organisms Laws Of Nature Cooperatives

Author:George Lucas

“Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.”

Ifs Enough Use Brain Organisms

Author:George Lucas

“Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.”

Ifs Helping Together Fighting Realizing Helping Each Other

Author:George Lucas

“As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.”

Thinking Want Helping Individual Groups Succeed Stronger Winner

Author:George Lucas

“Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.”

Reason Helping Successful My Friends Helping Each Other

Author:George Lucas

“My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.”

Author:George Lucas

“You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.”

People Knows Needs Helping Levels Peers Need Help

Author:George Lucas

“One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road, and when they beg for help, if you give it to them, you end up succeeding. If you don't give it to them, you end up being turned into a frog or something. It's something that's been around for thousands of years, a concept that's been around for thousands of years.”

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Author:George Lucas

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