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176d
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." - Frank Herbert
146d
"The fool is always getting ready to live" - Seneca
134d
"A Wise Person Dyes Events With His Own Colour." - Seneca
104d
'There is only one way to happiness and that is to stop worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will' - Epictetus
89d
"The readiness is all" - Shakespeare
87d
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds" - Plato
77d
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

— Muhammad Ali
73d
Innovators and creative geniuses are not trained in classrooms. They are precisely those who challenge what they have learned in school.


Mises
72d
"Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

— Muhammad Ali
72d
Those who love freedom must always be prepared to fight to the death against those who wish to suppress it.


Mises
70d
In the battle of the sexes, crushing the enemy is not synonymous with victory.


You have to constantly be putting them in “check,” but not “checkmate.”


~ JPB
67d
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the biggest crisis possible, and nations will accept the New World Order” - David Rockefeller 1994
66d
“It ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
— Rocky Balboa
52d
"I'll take care of me for you, and you take care of you for me" - Jim Rohn
39d
勇者愤怒,抽刃向更强者;怯者愤怒,却抽刃向更弱者。
36d
"The deepest form of slavery is the hunger for being understood." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
26d
"You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
25d
"It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves." Simone Weil
21d
“There’s no point in fighting against nature or in seeking to become what you can’t.”— Cicero
19d
"To know and not to do, is not to know." - Wang Yangming
19d
"Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
15d
Some old dude said, “I hope they forget about it, because people who receive favors aren't grateful—even if they say they are—but rather annoyed because they feel indebted.”
13d
"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes." - Thomas Paine
9d
"The problem with introspection is that it has no end." - Philip K. Dick
9d
"The doer alone learneth" - Friedrich Nietzsche
9d
'The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.' - Napoléon Bonaparte