Matthew Stewart
Matthew Stewart
Well known as Fish from the comedy YouTube channel Wah!Banana, he was formerly a shoutcaster for Garena who worked on eSports games including League of Legends and FIFA.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYouTube Star
Date of Birth18 February 1994
CountryUnited States of America
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It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
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Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.
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The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.
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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
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Ethan Allen was convinced that every planet out there has its own intelligent extraterrestrials. And this, as you can imagine, is a radical, inspiring, but very unsettling, idea.
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During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
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Benjamin Franklin maintained that every star is a sun, and every sun nourishes a 'chorus of worlds' just like ours.
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At the decisive Boston town meeting of Nov. 29, 1773, while ships loaded with cargo from the East India Company idled in the harbor, Thomas Young was the first and only speaker to propose that the best way to protest the new Tea Act was to dump the tea into the water.
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Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.
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Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.
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Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.
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Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
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Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.
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For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.