Quotes

Quotes
No. Quote and Author

1. “Don't believe in yourself who believes in me. Don't believe in me who believes in
you. Believe in yourself who believes in you."
~ Unknown
2. “Listen Simon, never forget this. Believe in yourself. Not in the Simon I have faith in.
Not in the Kamina that you believe in either. Believe in the Simon that believes in
you.”
~ Kamina, Gurren Lagann
3. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.. "
~ Edmund Burke
4. "I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."
~ Natalie Portman
5. "Any fool can run towards the light. It takes a master with courage to turn and face the
darkness and shine his own light there."
~ Leslie Fieger
6. “If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then
what am I? And if not now, when?”
~ Hillel the Elder (c. 60 BC-10 AD)
Jewish scholar and religious leader
In the Pirkei Avot (“Ethics of the Fathers”)
7. “If not us, who? If not now, when..?”
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( J.F.K )
8. “Religious suffering is, at the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest
against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a
heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
~ Karl Marx
9. “Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise..”
~ William Shakespeare
10. “Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple,
and the simple thing is the right thing.”
~ Oscar Wilde
11. “The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.”
~ Henry Van Dyke
12. “Pain is the wine of communion with heroes."
~ Teachings of Rhetoricus (Imperial Fists)
13. “When the world says, “ Give up,” .. Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~ Author Unknown
14. “Responsibility is the price of greatness.”
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- Winston Churchill
15. “There can be honour in life, and honour in courage, and honour in action, but the
most certain honour of all, to man’s regret, is the honour in death.”
~Iaco Bousar Fep Golke, from his diaries
(Gaunt's Ghosts, Straight Silver)
16. "A man is not made for defeat. He can be destroyed, but never defeated.. "
- The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
17. "A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.."
~ Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
18. "He who controls the past, commands the future. He who controls the future, conquers
the past."
~ George Orwell
19. "Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) "
~ Ancient Latin Maxim
20. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say
it.."
~ François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
21. "It is a false belief that if I'm incomplete, I have to be completed by another person.
You have to do it through your own life, your own work, for your own pleasure ,
through individual growth. The more fulfilled you are, in terms of things that you do
separately that please you, the more individuated and more whole you are and the
more intimate you can be. Then you're not expecting the other person to make you
happy. You're expecting the other person to join you in your happiness."
~ Unknown, Found on the Internet
22. "What is the strongest weapon of mankind? The god-machines of the Adeptus
Mechanicus? No! The Astartes Legions? No! The tank? The lasgun? The fist? Not at
all! COURAGE and COURAGE alone stands above them ALL !!! "
~ From the writings of Lord Solar Macharius (Necropolis, Dan Abnett)
23. “If you don’t expect gratitude you’ll seldom be disappointed.”
~ Eyor Dedonki, Memoirs of a Pessimist 479.M41 (Ciaphas Cain Series, Traitor's
Hand by Sandy Mitchel)
24. “Winning is everything, but the trick is to know where the winning really is… We're
political animals, Ibram. Through us, if we do our job properly, the black and white of
war is tempered. We are the interpreters of combat, the translators. We give meaning
to war, subtlety, purpose even. Killing is the most abhorrent, mindless profession
known to man. Our role is to fashion the killing machine of the human species into a
positive force. For the Emperor's sake. For the sake of our own consciences. "
~ Commissar-General Delane Oktar,
on the role of Commissars
First and Only (Novel) - Gaunt's Ghosts: The Founding (Omnibus)
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by Dan Abnett, "A Memory" after Part VI, p. 233
25. "Symmetry is a beautiful thing."
~ Attributed to Mr.Leong, college physics teacher.
26. "Less is more."
~ Mies van der Rohe
27. "Rather than trying to look upon old sights with fresh eyes, why not turn your old eyes
to fresh sights?"
- Critique from Aradryan to Korlandril
(Path of The Seer by Gav Thorpe, pg 39)
28. "Legacy is a great and terrible thing. It can drive us to emulate and even exceed the
great deeds of the past, but it can also debilitate and condemn us to repeat past
mistakes.."
~ Chaplain Elysius of The Salamanders Chapter (Firedrake Book II of the Tome of
Fire Trilogy by Nick Kyme, pg 21)
29. “My time is now.. "
~ John Turner
30. "Greatness challenges men. Great men challenge greatness.. "
~ Unknown
31. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred
battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also
suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in
every battle.. "
~ Sun Tzu
32. "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.."
~ Benjamin Franklin
33. "Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on
something over which you actually do have control.. "
~ Darren L. Johnson
34. "You deserve nothing. Remember that.."
~ Unknown
35. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est.." (“Of the dead let nothing but good be
said”)
~ Ancient Latin axiom.
36. "Learning is good, doing is better.."
~ Unknown
37. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.."
~ Wayne Gretzky
38. “Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.. "
~ Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
39. "Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes
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unnoticed.."
~ Peter S.Beagle
40. “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss
the attention it deserves.. "
~ Albert Einstein
41. "For it is in giving that we receive."
~ Francis of Assisi
42. "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly
indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
43. "I'm from the bottom; I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My
perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So
that's what I did.. "
~ Kevin Garnett
44. "A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by
giving them fortune.."
~ Richard Whately
45. "The worth of money is not in its possession but in its use."
~ Fables Aesop, 6th Century
46. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
~ Tolkien
47. "The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner
without giving an excuse.."
~ Jules Renard
48. “Who dares.. wins. "
~ British Special Air Service (SAS) motto
49. "The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.."
~ Robert Benchley
50. "Death is nothing compared to vindication.. "
~ Last words and final lesson of Konrad Curze, Night Haunter, Primach of the VIII
Legion.
51. "Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own
existence."
~ Richard Dawkins
52. " 'First time that time,' says Larkin from a corner nearby. 'I know,'says Bragg. He
looks at Gaunt. He's proud of himself. 'Sometimes, I miss,' he explains.'I know,' says
Gaunt. The big man's nickname is Try Again because he's always messing up the first
shot.
Gaunt sits quietly for a minute or two. He wipes the sweat off his face.
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He thinks about trying again, and second chances. Sometimes there just isn't the
opportunity or the willingness to make things better. Sometimes you can't simply have
another go. You make a choice, and it's a bad one, you're left with it. No amount of
trying again will fix it. Don't expect anyone to feel sorry for you, to cut you slack; you
made a mistake you'll have to live with. "
~ Gaunt and The Tanith 1st and Only, Of Their Lives In The Ruins Of Their Cities
by Dan Abnett, pg 390
53. "If life hands you lemons, make lemonade."
~ Unknown
54. "Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are.."
~ Attributed to Neil Armstrong
55. "Everyone has limits, not everyone accepts them.."
~ 'Fearless' Felix Baumgartner
56. “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of
their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them
possible.”
~ T.E. Lawrence
57. "Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry."
~ Lyman Abbott
58. " Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment."
~ Dodinsky
59. "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
~ George Berkely
60. "True loyalty must take as its cause something bigger than the individual; it must be
rooted in principles, not people.”
~ On Manly Loyalty
by Brett & Kate McKay on October 25, 2009
In A Man's Life, On Virtue
61. “I shall pass through this world but once. And any good therefore that I can do, or any
kindness that I can show to any being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.”
~ Stephen Grellet
62. "The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry
enough."
~ Bede Jarrett
63. "It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature,
but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim
incompetence in mathematics."
~ Richard Dawkins
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64. "I don't need it. Weapons are just tools. True strength lies within me.."
Mitsurugi walks off into the distance after uttering those words and discarding Soul
Calibur itself while Algol eyes widen in disbelief at first and then in respectful
approval, he smiles and nods at his opponent's action.
" Well done.' He says quietly."

~ Soul Calibur IV, after Mitsurugi defeats Algol.
65. .“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others
and the world remains and is immortal.”
~ Albert Pike
66. “For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian Desert to
collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to
write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find
peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples…It is not the
goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worthwhile the
journey.”
~ Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
An English explorer.
67. "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel "
~ Maya Angelou
68. “In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.."
~ Herodotus
69. "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well."
~ Common saying.
70. " Never tell a pawn the rules of chess"
~ Chess maxim
71. “They are a society that reacts, instead of acting first. They claim to be the water that
flows around a rock: The water does not push the rock out of the way, it merely goes
around it. They use this uncomplicated way of thinking in their everyday life. If they
set their minds to a task, and they fail, then they believe they went about it the wrong
way and try again. They do not mourn for failures, believing that they simply have
mapped out improper ways to do things and they will know better next time. This
philosophy seems simple, but the pandaren apply it to every aspect of their lives, from
brewing beer to adventuring. They are calm, affable types who will extend the hand of
friendship to a stranger on the road — but if the stranger is hostile, the hand of
friendship can quickly turn into an excruciating joint lock.. "
~ Description of Pandaren's philosophy of life
72. “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though
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checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor
suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor
defeat.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
73. "There are two rules of success.
Rule 1. Never reveal everything you know."
~ Unknown
74. " Festina lente ; Make haste slowly or in flow
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance
of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and
good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which
one is fully engaged by the task and there is no sense of time passing.. "
~ Ancient Roman proverb
75. “Only the truly insane will truly prosper.. "
~ Common Imperial Maxim
76. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting
it.."
~ Aristotle
77. " Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has
stayed securely on shore and merely existed? "
~ Hunter S. Thompson
78. "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people," said Schwab, "the
greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by
appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a
person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize any-one. I believe in giving a
person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault if I like
anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise. "
~Charles Schwab, picked by Andrew Carnegie to become the first president of the
newly formed United States Steel Company in 1921.
79. "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than
that."
~ George Carlin
80. "To understand Chaos is to understand insanity.."
~ Malcador the Sigillite, First Lord of Terra, Grand Master of The Assassins
81. "Two things to note there, sergeant. One is that there is no such thing as a minor
detail. Information is victory. One cannot and should not dismiss any data as
inconsequential until one is in a position to evaluate its significance, and that only
comes with hindsight. So all detail is important until circumstances render it
redundant.‟"
~ Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of The XIII Legion, The Ultramarines speaking to
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Aeonid Thiel, Sergeant, 135th Company. (Know No Fear, Dan Abnett, Horus Heresy
series, pg 106/53)
82. "Sergeant Thiel. Do you happen to know why he was under censure? ‟
" I do, sir,‟ says Jaer. " His commanding officer discovered that he was running
theoreticals on how to fight and defeat Space Marines, sir. Thiel claimed, in his
defense, that he had run theoreticals on all other major adversaries, and it was a
tactical blind spot not to know how to fight the Legions. He said, as I understand it,
that the Space Marines of the Imperium were the greatest warriors in the galaxy, and
thus had an obligation to understand how to fight and defeat the greatest warriors in
fhe galaxy. Thiel declared that Space Marines were the only opponents left worth any
theoretical study. His theoreticals were regarded as treasonous thought, and he was
referred to the flagship for censure.‟
"That was his infraction?‟ asks Gage.
"Looks bloody pitiful from where we’re standing, doesn’t t it?”asks Jaer.
~ Marius Gage, Praetor, Master of the First Chapter (First Master) of the Ultramarines
Legion, Second in Command to Roboute Guilliman inquiring Apothecary Jaer
concerning Sergeant Thiel's censure following the traitorous Word Bearer's assault on
Calth.
(Know No Fear, Horus Heresy Series)
by Dan Abnett, pg. 140/70
83. "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being
superior to your former self.."
~ Ernest Hemingway
84. "Power is like being a lady; if you have to say you are, you aren't.."
~ Margaret Thatcher
85. "Believing everyone is dangerous. Believing nobody is very dangerous.."

~ Abraham Lincoln
86. "The man who intends to make his fortune in this ancient capital of the world [Rome]
must be a chameleon susceptible of reflecting the colors of the atmosphere that
surrounds him...He must be supple, flexible, insinuating, close, inscrutable, often base,
sometimes sincere, sometimes perfidious, always concealing a part of his knowledge,
indulging in but one tone of voice,patient, a perfect master of his countenance, as cold
as ice when any other man would be all fire..."
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~ MEMOIRS Giovanni Casanova 1725 – 1798
87. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all
yourself.. ”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
88. " It’s better to be in a position to give than in a position where you need to receive.."
~ Quote, Author Unknown
89. " If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to build theirs.. "
~ Tony Gaskins
90. "We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, homeless and naked. But the
poverty of being unwanted, unloved, uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start
in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
~ Mother Teresa
91. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made
all the difference."
~ Robert Frost
92. " He realised,as Vulkan attached Dawnbringer to his belt, that it wasn’t weakness he
had seen in his primarch, but humanity. It was the genuine concern that his brothers
had fallen to darkness, and the emergence of the resolve he would need to fight them.
He should doubt the justness of this fight, and he should stop to consider the
consequences of it. Only by doing so could a warrior be sure that he drew bolter and
blade in good cause and against a true enemy. This, Numeon realized, was Vulkan’s
teaching. Morality, conscience, humanity, these were not flaws; they were strengths.. "
~ Nemon, Pyre Guard from " Vulkan Lives" by Nick Kyme ; page 26.
93. “Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the
civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed,
we live, and what they lived, we dream..”
~ T.K. Whipple
94. “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall
never sit in.”
~ Greek Proverb
95. " I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his
ancient homeland where loyalty was merely a device to gain an advantage over a
common foe. " Perhaps I care because I strive to be different from my people," he
said, as much to himself as to Bruenor." Perhaps I care because I am different from
my people. I may be more akin to the races of the surface... That is my hope at least. I
care because I have to care about something. You are not so different, Bruenor
Battlehammer. We care lest our lives be empty."
~ Drizzt Do'urden contemplating his reasons to Bruenor Battlehammer (The Legend
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of Drizzt, Book IV, The Crystal Shard, R.A. Salvatore, pg 46)
96. " The intense application of martial violence is the only proven way mankind's destiny
has ever been advanced.."
~ Attributed to Alpharius, Alpha Legion
97. "Politics has slain its thousands, yes, but religion has slain its millions."
~ Revelation ' The Emperor of Mankind ' conversing with Uriel
(Tales of Heresy, The Last Church, Graham McNeill, pg 246)
98. “Galadriel: “Why the Halfling..?”
Gandalf: “I do not know. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in
check.. but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small things..everyday deeds
of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why
Bilbo Baggins..? Perhaps it is because I am afraid. And he gives me courage.."
~ Gandalf to Galadriel, The Hobbit (2013) directed by Peter Jackson, J.R.R.Tolkien.
99. “The priests of the different religious sects...dread the advance of science as witches
do the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the
subdivision of the duperies on which they live."
~ Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of The United States of America
100. “Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not
accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something
that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so
self-sufficient as not to need to and therefore does not partake of society, is either a
beast or a god.”
~ Aristotle, Politics
101. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
~ Max Lucado
102. "Only fools are certain."
~ General Stern to his commissar. Dawn of War, Winter Assault.
103. "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.
If you're a man, you take it.."
~ Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, (1965)
104. "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep and there comes a time
when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."
~ Stewart Alsop
105. "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably
be unhappy all the days of your life."
~ Abraham Maslow
106. "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
107. "Better a moment of embarrassment than a lifetime of ignorance."
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~ Ciaphas Cain, Commissar of The 12th Valhallan Regiment(Sandy Mitchell, Death
or Glory) pg 22/102 (Ebook)
108. “A man will fight harder for his interests then for his rights.."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
109. “Only in Washington would anyone call this budget fiscally responsible. Every
American family has to live within their means. Their government should too.."
~ John Kerry
110. “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it
bears a very close resemblance to the first.."
~ Ronald Reagan
111. “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors.."
~ Plato
112. “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of
Paul.."
~ George Bernard Shaw
113. “How come we choose from just 2 people to run for president and 50 for Miss
America..? "
~ Author unknown
114. "Philosophers have merely interpreted the world. The point is to change it.."
~ Karl Max
115. "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.."
~ Mao Tse Tung
116. "Politics have no relations to morals.."
~ Niccolo Machiavell
117. "When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but
creatures of emotion."
~ Dale Carnegie
118. “Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence,
and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'."
~ Richard Dawkins
119. “I’m a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural
Jews or cultural Muslims."
~ Richard Dawkins
120. “God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective
power, in the environment provided by human culture."
~ Richard Dawkins
121. "Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."
~ Don Hirschber
122. “I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell
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you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and
Father Christmas and things."
~ Richard Dawkins
123. “I do disapprove very strongly of labeling children, especially young children, as
something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'"
~ Richard Dawkins
124. To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do
not know, that is true knowledge.”
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
125. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who will watch the watchers?)
~ Ancient Latin adage
126. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by
rulers as useful.”
~ Seneca the Younger
127. “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate
evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
~ Richard Dawkins
128. “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the
world."
~ Richard Dawkins
129. "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
~ Nelson Mandela
130. "Brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls
are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls
are there to stop people who don't want it badly enough."
~ Randy Pausch
131. "I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can
possibly imagine."
~ Richard Dawkins
132. "One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with
answers which are not really answers at all."
~ Richard Dawkins
133. "There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts
and intentions of men."
~ Interview with Edward Murrow, A Conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1955
134. Two days before the Trinity test, Oppenheimer expressed his hopes and fears in a
quotation from the Bhagavad Gita:
In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,

On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
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In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him
~ Julius Robert Oppenheimer

135. “If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed
to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for
themselves that they are atheists. "
~ Richard Dawkins
136. “My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism."
~ Richard Dawkins
137. “The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most
important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is
no."
~ Richard Dawkins
138. “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I
am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I
find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am
morally responsible for everything I do."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
139. “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates
dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
~ John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
140. “A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence."
~ Richard Dawkins
141. “The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious
expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
~ Richard Dawkins
142. “I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do
science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to
defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance."
~ Richard Dawkins
143. “For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still
are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria."
~ Richard Dawkins
144. “Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-
nonsense way for aggression."
~ Richard Dawkins
145. “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
~ David Hume
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146. "One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms."
~ Maximillian Kohler to Robert Langdon (Angels and Demons, Dan Brown, pg 39)
147. “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose' (Les Guêpes)."
(The more things change, the more they are the same.)"
~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1908 – 1990)
148. "Know ye not that ye are gods?"
~ Ancient saying
149. "Without the scientist, there is no future. The handsome and the beautiful may earn
the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-
product of the unsung, anonymous scientists."
~Dr. Michio Kaku in his book 'Physics of the future'
150. "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."
~ Vince Lombardi
151. "“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never
excuse yourself.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
152. "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
153. "I’m not into accepting anything. My take is don’t be overoptimistic. Accept the
difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever
changing it."
~ Aubrey De Grey, gerontologist
154. "Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from."
~ Vernon Howard
155. "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our
own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their
efforts to obtain it."
~ John Stuart Mill
156. "Spectatorism is very great in our modern society. Because some people cannot
conceive of causing anything, they just watch it. They don’t do anything. They are not
PARTICIPANTS. They are spectators. You see this in magazines. Hee hee hee
articles about how odd this is or that is. No understanding of it. It’s just odd and one
watches it in a detached sort of way. Below this is somebody who doesn’t even notice.
Such a person has to come up scale just to be a spectator."
~ L. Ron Hubbard (1969)”
157. "The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him . . . They
were worth at least as much as they could be sold for in the market . . . It is the
impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the
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soil whose fruits they will not eat and our masons to construct buildings in which they
will not live . . . It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich
man in order to get from him permission to enrich him . . . what effective gain [has]
the suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his
misfortune . . . These men . . . [have] the most terrible, the most imperious of masters,
that is, need. . . . They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is
that to be free?"
~ Simon Linguet (1763)
158. "One day, you will wake up and there won't be anymore time to do the things that
you've always wanted. Do it now."
~ Paulo Coelho
159. "It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have
education without common sense."
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
160. "There are more fools in the world than there are people."
~ Heinrich Heine
161. "In dark ages, people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch black night a blind man
is the best guide; he knows better the roads and paths better than a man who can see.
When daylight comes however, it is foolish to to use blind, old men as guides."
~ Heinrich Heine
162. "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed
pause."
~ Mark Twain
163. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
~ From 'The Stolen Child', by William Butler Yeats, published in 1889, in The
Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems.
164. "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
~ Harry S. Truman
165. "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
~ Khalil Gibran
166. “Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for
money.”
~ Voltaire
167. "Quand il s’agit d’argent, tout le monde est de la même religion."
(When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.)
~ Voltaire
Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney (26 December 1760) from Oeuvres Complètes de
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Voltaire: Correspondance
(Garnier frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124) (Source: Wikiquotes)
168. “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadows, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
~ 'Life's Brief Candle' by William Shakespeare,
in Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28).
169. “By serving others and putting others’ needs before oneself, only then can anyone
truly impact the world with change.”
~ Abraham Luncoln, 16th President of The United States of America
170. “The more your audience talks, the more they think they have learned from you.”
~ Public speaking business maxim
171. “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the
men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.”
~ General George S. Patton, World War II General
172. "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
173. "The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see
through it."
174. "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is
ripe for execution."
175. "It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
176. "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
~ John F. Kennedy
177. "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
~ John F. Kennedy
178. "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
~ John F. Kennedy
179. "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been
brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen
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leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten."
~ John F. Kennedy
180. "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
~ John F. Kennedy
181. "We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of
work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."
~ John F. Kennedy
182. "Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be
as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
~ John F. Kennedy
183. “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final
moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."
~ John F. Kennedy
184. "Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between
Richard Nixon and the White House."
~ John F. Kennedy
185. "The human mind is our fundamental resource."
~ John F. Kennedy
186. .“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
187. "Where there is evidence, no one speaks of 'faith'. We do not speak of faith that two
and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to
substitute emotion for evidence."
~ Bertrand Russell
188. "It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, none more
doubtful of success, none more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of
things."
~ Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527 (48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, 419 pg)
189. "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making
them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new
generation grows up that is familiar with it."
~ Max Planck (48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, pg 421)
190. "Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."
~ Thoreau
191. "The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory."
~ Napoleon Bonaparte , 1769 – 1821
192. "When you have won a victory, tighten the strings of your helmet."
~ Old Japanese saying
193. "If you milk a cow too much you draw blood, not milk."
~ Unknown
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194. "A friend to all is a friend to none."
~ Aristotle
195. "A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor."
~ African proverb
196. "A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all."
~ Unknown
197. "A loaded wagon makes no noise."
~ Old English saying
198. "An empty vessel makes the most noise."
~ William Baldwin
199. "A stitch in time saves nine."
~ Old English saying
200. "Advice most needed is least heeded."
~ Common saying
201. “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”
~ Common saying
202. "People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me
ruthless, I shall destroy him."
~ Robert Kennedy
203. “Where there is no might, right loses itself.”
~ Portuguese proverb
204. " Promises aren't made by words. They are made by paper and guaranteed by money."
~ Unknown
205. “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”
~ Will Smith
206. "You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
~ John Mason
207. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci
208. “We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and
come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
209. “As far as I have seen, at school ... they aim to blot out one's individuality.”
- Franz Kafka
210. "An honest man is not necessarily a nice man"
~ Tun Dr Ismail.
211. " No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way
ahead of everyone who isn't trying."
~ Tony Robbins
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212. “How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”
~ Henry David Thoreau
213. “It's senseless that this travesty is still being played out to the public, since it was in
fact settled 600 years ago, but I guess if enough lies are propagated long enough, the
truth will ultimately become the disenchanted myth."
~ Bruce Monson expressing skepticism that the Shroud of Turin dates to the 1st
century CE.
214. “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”
~ Old adage
215. “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die
tomorrow.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
216. "Great men are made by other great men."
~ General Bethlehem speaking to the "the Postman" (The Postman, 1997)
217. . "The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so
when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do
so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame."
218. "Reasoning with religious people is like giving antibiotics to a corpse."
~ Michelle Sutton (Facebook user)
219. "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate
those who have been supreme, so that if ability does not equal theirs, at least it will
savour of it."
220. "We teach other people how to treat us."
~ Dr. Phil
221. “The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.”
~ Alexander Pope
222. “Manhood is the social barrier that societies must erect against entropy, human
enemies, the forces of nature, time, and all the human weaknesses that endanger group
life.”
~ David D. Gilmore
223. "Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
~ George Eliot
224. "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
~ Francis Bacon
225. "If you want something you never had, go do something you've never done."
~ Unknown
226. “Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear
most, and that is the indifference of good men.”
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~ The Boondock Saints
227. “We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people
who do not care.”
~ Will Smith
228. “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
~ Albert Einstein
229. “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”
~ Albert Einstein
230. “Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the
opposite … when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed
to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often
became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts … were not curing
misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make
misinformation even stronger.”
—Joe Keohane, “How Facts Backfire” (2010)
231. "I was born alone and I will die alone. I’ve got to do what’s right for me and not live
my life the way anybody else wants it."
~ Curtis Jackson
232. "My dictionary defines idealism as 'seeing' things as they should be instead of as they
are.'"
~ Unknown
233. "Think, say and do what is right. Refuse to think, say or do what is wrong.”
~ Unknown
234. "Everyone lies."
~ Dr. Gregory House
235. "There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."
~ Edmund Burke
236. “Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
237. “Whatever is popular is wrong.”
~ Oscar Wilde
238. “A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any
language.”
~ Dale Carnegie
239. “Biological virus strategies bear a remarkable resemblance to methods of religious
propagation. Religious conversion seems to affect personality. Inthe viral paradigm,
the God virus infects and takes over the critical thinking capacity of the individual
with respect to his or her own religion, much as rabies affects specific parts of the
central nervous system. A simple thought experiment reveals how the God virus
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works to dull critical thinking. The God virus infects an individual and then inoculates
against other viruses. Vectors in biology carry a parasite, virus or pathogen from one
reservoir to another. Religious vectors act in similar ways. Priests, imams, ministers,
etc., carry the virus and infect new people. The virus carefully directs resources
toward it and creates taboos against giving to competing viruses. Sometimes vectors
fail. The expense of developing a vector makes it imperative to protect it even in
failure as in the case of priest pedophilia. Mutations are constantly produced.
Occasionally one breaks out, as in the case of Martin Luther, to infect vulnerable
people and cultures.”
~ Darrel Ray, The God Virus (2009, p. 32)
240. "People measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each
is… Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
~ Ralpho Waldo Emerson
241. "If the Gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for
they are always praying for evil against one another."
~ Epicurus
242. "All thinking men are atheist."
~ Ernest Hemingway
243. "Ch. 19; Variant: Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good
weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good
friends. (as translated by RM Adams)."
244. "What does winning mean if you never lose?"
~ Unknown
245. “ History is written by the victors."
~ Winston S. Churchill
246. "We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe
understands itself."
~ Brian Cox, Nobel Prize Winning Particle Physicist
247. "The best place in the world is in the arms of someone who will not only hold you at
your best, but will pick you up and hug you tight at your weakest moment."
~ Unknown
248. "Follow the evidence wherever it leads and question everything."
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
249. " A man who stands for nothing, falls for anything."
~ Malcom X
250. " Truth is on the side of the oppressed."
~ Malcom X
251. " Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his
hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
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~ Malcom X
252. "I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually
triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life."
~ Ronald Reagan, words he delivered at the opening of the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library and inscribed on his burial site.
253. "Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of
my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my
loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have -
life itself."
~ Walter Anderson
254. "Pain is temporary, glory is forever."
~ J.F Kennedy.
255. “The RNA levels showed one copy effectively gets turned off. It’s not simply an
average of what its parents have. This pattern occurs in both fungi and plants — in
other words, there are universal rules that control gene expression levels in hybrids
across the tree of life.”
~ Professor Murray Cox, Massey University
256. "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try to sleep with a mosquito."
~ Dalai Lama
257. " Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
~ John Wooden
258. . "Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid
to admit what we don't know - there is no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend
we have all the answers."
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos - Episode 2: Some Of The Things That Molecules
Do.
259. “It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can
manifest.”
~ Lauren Zimmerman
260. “Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is
simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out
across some voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting done. It's
there to be used like a weapon or tool, and as time wanders on, seemingly leaving us
fewer and fewer new things to say, it becomes ever more useful. As technology moves
forward, as well, it also becomes much easier. Indeed, in this "information age" where
so much is available to so many so quickly that enlightenment nearly verges on light
pollution, it can sometimes appear that expression has been reduced to nothing more
than a mad race to unearth and claim references. As such, the citation is also there to
be donned, like some article of fashion from which we may reap the praise of
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discriminating taste without ever exerting ourself in the actual toil of manufacture.”
~ Jasper Siegel Seneschal, Citations: A Brief Anthology
261. "If we pretend or imagine that life's purpose lies outside living itself, we will be
searching the stars for what is underneath our feet all the time."
~ Julian Baggini, A Very Short Introduction to Atheism
262. “Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed. Faith is the denial of observation
so that belief can be preserved”
~ Tim Minchin
263. "The existence of avoidable suffering in the world seems to be an undeniable fact.
This must mean one of three things: God can't stop it, which means he is not all-
powerful; he doesn't want to stop it, so he isn't all-loving; or he doesn't know about it,
which means he isn't all-knowing. This is the so-called problem of evil, and it seems
to present a strong case for saying that the traditional Judaeo-Christian God can't
exist."
~ Julian Baggini, A Very Short Introduction to Atheism
264. " As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
~ Andrew Carnegie.
265. “The quieter you become the more you can hear.”
~ Baba Ram Das
266. “I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.”
~ Bob Newhart
267. "The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who
walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before."
~ Albert Einstein"
268. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them
reveal the greatest version of themselves."
~ Dr. Steve Maraboli
269. "Other men's sins are before our eyes. Our own are behind our backs."
~ Seneca, Roman philosopher
270. "If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting
wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your
parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
~ Henry Rollins
271. "The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the
hands of many."
~ John Naisbitt
272. “Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just
DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies...what we've seen, heard,
felt...anger, joy and sorrow...these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for.
We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its
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light. We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will
probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth
may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we
can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.”
~ Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)
273. “There's no such thing as miracles or the supernatural, only cutting edge technology.”
~ Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)
274. “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
~ Lao Tze
275. “Does something like a “self” exist inside of you? That which you call “self” serves as
nothing more than a mask to cover your own being. In this era of ready-made ‘truths’,
“self” is just something used to preserve those positive emotions that you occasionally
feel... Another possibility is that “self” is a concept you conveniently borrowed under
the logic that it would endow you with some strength...”
-The Patriots (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)
276. "In denial, you simply resort to looking for another, more convenient “truth” in order
to make yourself feel better -- leaving behind in an instant the so-called “truth” you
once embraced. Should someone like that be able to decide what is “truth”? Should
someone like you even have the right to decide? You’ve done nothing but abuse your
freedom. You don’t deserve to be free!”
-The Patriots (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)
277. “We've inherited freedom from all those who've fought for it. We all have the freedom
to spread the word. Even me.”
-Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, 2001)
278. "Back when I was a rookie, I used to spray my assault rifle all over the place and
waste ammo… You gotta stay focused, aim, and be smart with your trigger finger, fire
in small bursts. It’s not how many shots you fire, it’s how many hit the target. I wish
I’d realized that sooner…"
~ Soldier quote (Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker)
279. “Snake, we're not tools of the government or anyone else! Fighting was the only
thing... the only thing I was good at, but... At least I always fought for what I believed
in...”
-Gray Fox (Metal Gear Solid, 1998)
280. "The earth was blue but there was no God."
~ The Boss speaking to Naked Snake/Big Boss, MGS3
(Actual origin supposedly attributed to Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut but disputed.
Highly likely originated from a speech delivered by Nikita Khrushchev at the plenum
of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
281. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T. S. Eliot
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282. "We need tension...conflict. The world today has become too soft. We're living in an
age where true feelings are suppressed. So we're going to shake things up a bit. We'll
create a world dripping with tension... ...a world filled with greed and suspicion,
bravery and cowardice."
~ Revolver Ocelot to Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
283. "There's no such thing as an absolute enemy. Our enemies are always relative."
~ Kazhura Miller to Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes)
284. . "One must die and one must live. No victory, no defeat. The survivor will carry on
the fight. It is our destiny... The one who survives will inherit the title of Boss. And
the one who inherits the title of Boss will face an existence of endless battle."
~ The Boss to Naked Snake (Metal Gear Solid III : Snake Eater)
285. “The debt and work cycle is an ingenious tool of subjugation. Make people think they
need all these things, then they must have a job, and they give up control of their lives.
It's as simple as that. We live in one of the most free countries in the world, but we fix
it so we are not free at all. "
~ Larry Roth
286. "Capitalism only supports certain kinds of groups, the nuclear family for example, or
'the people I know at my job', because such groups are already self-alienated &
hooked into the Work/Consume/Die structure."
~ Hakim Bey
287. "Supposing we suddenly imagine a world in which nearly everybody is doing what
they want. Then we don't need to be paid in order to work and the whole issue of how
money circulates, how we get things done, suddenly alters."
- Robert Theobald
288. "Whether a cat is black or white makes no difference. As long as it catches mice, it is
a good cat."
~ Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)
289. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~ Robert Kennedy
290. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn
your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul
and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes
for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and
the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful
happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your
excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh
with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make
you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the
things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any
pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around.
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You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they
love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a
note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish
forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like
being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of
daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two
during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile
to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you
find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you
before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is
so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you
do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm
cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be
broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you
never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your
heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing
you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life
seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is
in knowing that they are a part of your life.”
~ Bob Marley
291. "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous."
~ Amelia Barr
292. "Good words are worth much, and cost little."
~ George Herbert
293. "Whoever wins, our battle does not end. The loser is free from the battlefield, but the
winner must remain there and the survivor must live his life as a warrior until he dies."
~ Big Boss to Solid Snake, in Zanzibar Land
294. "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
295. . "If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
~ Henry Miller
296. "It is true that liberty is precious — so precious that it must be rationed."
~ Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
297. In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the
poor.”
~ Oscar Wilde
298. "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
~ Jim Morrison
299. “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”
~ Chinese Proverb
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300. “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
(Originally from Friedrich Nietzsche)
301. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has
practiced one kick 10,000 times."
~ Bruce Lee
302. "And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."
~ Homer
303. "When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the
situation or accept it. All else is madness."
~ Eckhart Tolle
304. "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
~ James M. Barrie
305. "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for
the poor."
~ Sholom Aleichem
306. "You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that
barks.".
~ Winston Churchill
307. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of
discovery."
~ James Joyce
308. "People should either be caressed or crushed."
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
309. "The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
310. "The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it basically because you feel good,
very good when you are near or with them."
~ Charles Bukowski
311. "Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to
communicate the things that seem important to you."
~ Carl Jung
312. "Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in
sinks into the mind."
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
313. "All methodologies have their limitations and the only ‘rule’ that survives is‘anything
goes’."
~ Paul K. Feyerabend
314. "When confronted with an economic problem, first translate into mathematics, then
solve the problem, then translate back into English and burn the mathematics."
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~ Alfred Marshall
315. "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class
of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the
privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual
tasks.”
~ Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States,
“The Meaning of a Liberal Education”, Address to the New York City High School
Teachers Association (9 January 1909)
316. "If a being can perform any action, then it should be able to create a task which this
being is unable to perform; hence, this being cannot perform all actions. Yet,on the
other hand, if this being cannot create a task that it is unable to perform, then there
exists something it cannot do."
"Could an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it?"If
he could lift the rock, then it seems that the being would not have been omnipotent to
begin with in that he would have been incapable of creating a heavy enough stone; if
he could not lift the stone, then it seems that the being either would never have been
omnipotent to begin with or would have ceased to be omnipotent upon his creation of
the stone."
~ Omnipotence Paradox (Wikipedia)
317. "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for
his."
~ George S. Patton
318. "Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
~ Euripides
319. “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war
first and then seek to win.”
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
320. " Still, I have seen the seed of good fall in the darkest swamp to grow strong and
beautiful thought it was poisoned by the most noxious miasma. And I have seen the
same seed, nurtured by the softest rains and the brightest sunshine, grow twisted and
ugly, to bear a bitter fruit."
~ Laurana, Queen Mother, A hero from the War of The Lances
(Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of A Fall Sun, War of Souls Book I, Margaret
Weis and Tracy Hickman)
321. "Someday, there will be no workers, only artists."
~ Bob Black: Abolitionist and Archestrator of the Slack Revolution
by Steve Mizrach, aka seeker 1
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322. “We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make
but little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge,
never get beyond the outer bark of an idea, from a lack of patience and perseverance
to dig to the core; men who begin everything and complete nothing; who see, but do
not perceive; who read, but forget what they read, and are as if they had not read; who
travel but go nowhere in particular, and have nothing of value to impart when they
return.”
~ Fredrick Douglas
323. “Don’t follow your mentors; follow your mentors’ mentors.”
~ Art of Manliness, special guest article, quote by David Leach, retired business
executive
(http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/04/09/the-libraries-of-great-men-frederick-
douglass/)
324. "Douglass wished to rise in the world, and he fervently believed the path of self-
reliance was the only way up. It was not luck or circumstances that determined man’s
success, he argued, but how hard and how consistently he worked. Nothing valuable
could ever be gotten for nothing or from waiting around for others to make things
happen for you. “The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will
not get up will be allowed to stay down,” he preached. He understood that no one else
could shovel knowledge into his brain; it was up to him to pry it out of as many books
as he could. Whatever knowledge he secured to himself, could never be taken away by
another."
~ Art of Manliness
(http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/04/09/the-libraries-of-great-men-frederick-
douglass)
325. "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
~ Mao Zedong
326. “My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds. ”
~ Molière's character Alceste in Le Misanthrope (1666)
327. "There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game."
~ Lionel Messi
328. "Language is wine upon the lips."
~ Virginia Woolf
329. "A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
~ George R.R. Martin
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330. “People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
~ John C. Maxwell
331. "The only journey is the one within."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
332. "The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will
to power - and nothing else!"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
333. "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from
them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -
he's free again."
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
334. "No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to
change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."
~ Barbara de Angelis
335. "There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of
his powers."
~ Erich Fromm
336. "Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame
man who can see."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
337. "Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible
when discussion is permanently established."
~ Honore de Balzac
338. "Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
~ Alice Walker
339. "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to
watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what
to do and how to behave."
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
340. "Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
~ Stendhal
341. "Calmness is the cradle of power."
~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
342. "Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or
the power of God."
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
343. "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were
born to control affairs."
~ Andrew Carnegie
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344. "The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such
access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the
underprivileged."
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
345. "Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."
~ Friedrich Schiller
346. "People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of
maintaining and furthering that power."
~ Don DeLillo
347. "War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
~ Bertrand Russell
348. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
~ Bertrand Russell
349. "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To
conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
~ Bertrand Russell
350. "Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely
because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."
~ Bertrand Russell
351. "The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be
powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type
belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history."
~ Bertrand Russell
352. "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief
obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
~ Bertrand Russell
353. "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
~ Bertrand Russell
354. "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
~ Bertrand Russell
355. "I would never die for my beliefs, I could be wrong."
~ Bertrand Russell
356. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once
eccentric."
~ Bertrand Russell
357. "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be
necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
~ Bertrand Russell
358. "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one,
particularly if he plays golf."
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~ Bertrand Russell
359. "I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with
anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
~ Bertrand Russell
360. "Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world,
where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised
when they are not praiseworthy."
~ Bertrand Russell
361. “Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
~ Rene Descartes
362. “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in
them.”
~ Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
363. “Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.”
~ Plutarch, Sayings of the Spartans
364. “Suckers try to win arguments, non-suckers try to win.” –
~ Nassim Taleb
365. "Judge yourself based on the actions you take – not their outcomes."
~ Art of Manliness
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/05/19/10-overlooked-truths-about-taking-action/
366. "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
~ James Barrie
367. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
368. "I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
~ Fridtjof Nansen
369. "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
~ John F. Kennedy
370. "Every man is the hero of his own story."
~ Brandon Sanderson
371. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn
is hammering on cold iron."
~ Horace Mann
372. "The debt and work cycle is an ingenious tool of subjugation. Make people think they
need all these things, then they must have a job, and they give up control of their lives.
It's as simple as that. We live in one of the most free countries in the world, but we fix
it so we are not free at all. "
~ Larry Roth
373. "Supposing we suddenly imagine a world in which nearly everybody is doing what
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they want. Then we don't need to be paid in order to work and the whole issue of how
money circulates, how we get things done, suddenly alters."
~ Robert Theobald
374. "He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in
the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into
you."
375. "Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day-to-day living that wears you out."
~ Anton Chekhov
376. When survival or mere subsistence is at stake, a society can focus only on the
overwhelming needs of the moment, and questions of meaningful work and leisure are
considered purely academic. But we believe that the world has enough wealth to move
all of humanity above survival and subsistence."
~ Alfonso Montuori & Isabella Conti, From Power to Partnership: Creating the Future
of Love, Work, and Community
377. "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
~ Epictetus
378. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
~ Max Lucado
379. "Living is to suffer. The herd will walk through life never testing the rules or pushing
against fences doing what they're told. They live and die the "honest" life but the wolf
will stray and take on the wrongs with a force unmatched by obstacles. He will die a
warrior's death alone before he ever conforms or gives in to rules that create
injustice... a warrior's death is what I seek in the valley of all these sheep..."
~ Cerberus Rey Wolfe (US marine, died from suicide)
380. “The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But because of
the silence of good people.”
~ Napoleon.
381. “I am thankful to all those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I did it myself.”
~ Einstein.
382. “If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
383. “We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.”
~ Martin Luther King
384. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
385. “It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.”
~ Dr. Abdul Kalaam.
386. "Isn’t one minute of pain worth a lifetime of glory?”
~ Louis Zamperin's brother, Pete, to him.
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387. “The child has a hundred languages, a hundred hands, a hundred thoughts, a hundred
ways of thinking, of playing, of speaking…”
~ L. Malaguzzi, 1996
388. “It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do
practically anything you want them to.”
~ J.D. Salinger
389. “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently
opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
390. “Mac never took proper care of himself. On the base he skipped our physical-fitness
program. He chain-smoked. Drank. Spent his nights in Honolulu doing who knew
what. He also missed meals. We had pretty good food in the dining room, but he’d
come in, eat whatever was sweet, and leave. You couldn’t make him listen. Several
cups of coffee and three pieces of pie? No problem. Mac had developed a sweet tooth
long before he met our chocolate. I should have known I couldn’t trust him…
Everybody in the service gets the same combat training. We go to the front line with
the same equipment. When the chips are down, some will panic and run and get court-
martialed. Why? Because we’re not all brought up the same. I was raised to face any
challenge. If a guy’s raised with short pants and pampering, sure, he goes through the
same training, but in combat he can’t face it. He hasn’t been hardened to life.
It’s important to be hardened to life. Today kids cut their teeth on video games. I’d
rather play real games. This generation may be ready to handle robotic equipment and
fly planes with computers, but are they ready to withstand the inevitable
counterattack? Are they emotionally stable? Are they callous enough to accept
hardship? Can they face defeat without falling apart?”
~ Louis Zamperin
391. “I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but
simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time
with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive
criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me,
to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at
me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I
decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise.
I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to
popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites
and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I
dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know
how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I
have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I
have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.”
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~ José Micard Teixeira
392. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t
rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about
not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without
knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”
~ Gilda Radner
393. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than
society gathers wisdom.”
~ Isaac Asimov
394. “According to the Lakota Brave Heart Warrior Society, a Soldier follows orders and
fights because he is told to. He is externally motivated and disciplined by his
commanders. The Warrior, by contrast, is self-disciplined. A Warrior knows why he
fights because he has searched his own heart’s motives and has consciously and
intentionally chosen to pay the price with full awareness of what will be needed off
the battlefield when it is over."
[Muse, S. (2005). Fit for Life, Fit for War: Reflections on the Warrior Ethos.
Infantry Magazine. 94-2, 23-27.] http://fabiusmaximus.com/2012/01/07/32257/
395. “..and if unfortunately he is not religious at heart – a very common occurrence for a
soul possessing the above requisites, he must have religion in his mind, that is to say,
on his face, on his lips, in his manners; he must suffer quietly, if he be an honest man
the necessity of knowing himself an arrant hypocrite. The man whose soul would
loathe such a life should leave Rome and seek his fortune elsewhere. I do not know
whether I am praising or excusing myself, but of all those qualities I possessed but one
– namely, flexibility; for the rest, I was only an interesting, heedless young fellow, a
pretty good blood horse, but not broken, or rather badly broken; and that is much
worse.
~ The Complete memoirs of JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT (Illustrated)
By Giacomo Casanova, Jacques Casanova
396. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull
back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion,
excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory
and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability
to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest
in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ?
~ John Lennon
397. “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to
impress people that they don’t like.”
~ Will Rogers
398. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.”
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399. “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to
the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in
the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch.
To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
~ Arundhati Roy
400. “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are
explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer
books.”
~ Julian Barnes
401. “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People
talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing.
People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if
they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But
they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the
experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling.
Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and
hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your
right to feel your pain.”
~ Jim Morrison
402. “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may
previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many
people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change
their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and
conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality
nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.
The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life
comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy
than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different
sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for
monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to
you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full
meaning and its incredible beauty.”
~ Jon Krakauer
403. “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your
dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your
shit, then you deserve it.”
~ Frank Zappa
404. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to
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change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or
in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look
back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our
destiny.”
~ Paulo Coelho
405. “Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird
place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love
does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only
had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking
ourselves so damn seriously.”
~ Tom Robbins
406. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
407. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only
creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever
way they like.”
~ Lao Tzu
408. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to
be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time
to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a
time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a
time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to
keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent
and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for
peace."
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
409. “You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within
another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that
you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.”
~ Jorge Luis Borges
410. “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively
tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to
them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared
or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
~ Winston Churchill
411. "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist
them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find
in them.”
~ Thomas Merton
412. “Give a woman heaven, and she’ll complain about the view. Give a woman hell, and
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she’ll offer to pay the rent. “
~ AV8R, Return of Kings
413. "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see
the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows
up that is familiar with it."
~ Max Planck
414. "Already, you exalt me for my triumphs,
When I ask only that you remember me for my treacheries.
Victory is nothing more than survival.
It carries no weight of honour or worth beyond what we ascribe to it.
If you wish to grow wise, learn why brothers betray brothers."
~ Attributed to Khyron, Grand Master of the Eighth Brotherhood
(rumored to be Sevetar, First Captain of the VIII Legion, Night Lords)
(Emperor's Gift, by Aaron-Bowden Dembski)
415. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have
thrown at him."
~ David Brinkley
416. "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not
hear the music."
417. "You'll never know which cloud brings the rain."
~ Korean saying.
418. There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
~ Children’s nursery rhyme
419. "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than
anyone else."
~ Unknown
420. "There is no shame in defeat so long as the spirit is unconquered."
~ Praetor Fenix / Talendar (Starcraft II)
421. "In life, we do things. Some, we wish we had never done and some we wish we could
replay a million times. They make us who we are and, in the end, they shape and
detail us. If we were to reserve them, we wouldn’t be the person we are today. So, just
live. Make mistakes and have wonderful memories. But, never second guess who you
are, where you’ve been and, most importantly, where you’re going."
~ "Last Edit: December 28, 2011, 05:50:16 AM by Crusism »
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422. "Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive
them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who
they are."
~ James Alison
423. "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
~ Victor Hugo
424. "The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole."
~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It (V.i)
425. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
426. "Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and
rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will
beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or
nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how
hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep
moving forward. That's how winning is done!"
~ Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
427. “Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
428. "If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s
plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
~ Jim Rohn
429. "Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do."
~ John Wooden
430. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
~ Hayley Williams
431. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.”
~ C.G. Jung
432. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
~ Leonardo DaVinci
433. "Great people do things before they’re ready."
~ Unknown
434. "The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."
~ Confucius
435. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation
should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
~ Nelson Mandela
436. "A man's life should not be judged by how much he has in bag or what he stores in his
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mansion... but what he carries in his heart."
~ Unknown
437. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius
438. "People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step
further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for
varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental
fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize.
Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have
the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable
existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching."
- David Mitchell
439. "It would be better for me… that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather
than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself."
~ Socrates as quoted in "Gorgias" by Plato
440. "He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found."
~ Franz Kafka
441. "My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes
them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness
- it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my
peers have as well."
~ Franz Kafka
442. "The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go
further."
~ Franz Kafka
443. “What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
~ David Mitchell (novelist)
444. “Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime”
~ David Mitchell (novelist)
445. “I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things
happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.”
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritte
446. “Just a tip of advice. Never write on both sides of the sheet when you are sending a
letter to a busy man.”
~ Jack London, Letter to Louis Stevens, March 24, 1913
447. “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
~ Issac Netwon. 1676)
448. "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever."
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
449. “By endurance we conquer.”
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~ Ernest Shackleton
450. "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon
them."
451. "The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much,
and forgetting that you are special too."
~ Ernest Hemingway
452. "The truth was that the Astral Knights were losing on Borsis. Every objective required
more fury and luck to achieve, and each one promised greater disaster if it was not.
Zahiros’s failure to kill Heqiroth had sparked an endgame on Borsis with Heqiroth
constantly moving to fox the Astral Knights’ attempts to pin him down and
assassinate him, while the necrons relied on the attrition that was inevitable when they
had millions of warrior-constructs to spend in whittling away the hundreds of Astral
Knights. Every strategic assessment would determine the Astral Knights could not win
on Borsis. They could not even retreat – destruction was the only possible result. But a
Space Marine had to rise above such a truth, and he did it by following the Chaplains.
When defeat was certain and duty was impossible, a Chaplain spoke of an inevitable
victory and duty fulfilled. A Space Marine had the strength of mind to believe him.
And the Chaplain? He had the strength of mind to believe himself. Masayak refused to
believe the truth that was placed before him. The truth was a petty thing. His truth,
that the Astral Knights could be inspired to defeat Heqiroth and destroy Borsis, was
the only truth conducive to the Astral Knights fighting at their full capacity. And
sometimes, on rare occasions written of in the Chapter histories, that truth became a
reality. The Chaplains led their battle-brothers to impossible victories, because they
did not accept the concept of any victory being impossible."
~ Chaplain Masayak, Astral Knights (The World Engine by Ben Counter)
453. “I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another
person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face
might be.”
~ Nicholas Sparks
454. "There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself."
~ Louis XIV
455. . "I don't pretend to have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth
thinking about."
~ Arthur C. Clarke
456. “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
~ Frank Zappa
457. "You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by
force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is
frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second."
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~ from THE PRINCE by Niccolò Machiavelli
458. "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness."
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
459. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
~ Anais Nin
460. . "Don't let the shadows of yesterday spoil the sunshine of tomorrow.. Live for today."
~ Unknown
461. “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule – Never lie to yourself.”
~ Paulo Coelho
462. “Life has a way of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by
having everything happen at once.”
~ Paulo Coelho
463. “No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of
freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.”
~ Paulo Coelho
464. “I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If
it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my
world, but I know who I am.”
~ Paulo Coelho
465. “I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face
up to them.”
~ Paulo Coelho
466. "People are by nature changeable. It is easy to persuade them about some particular
matter, but it is hard to hold them to that persuasion. Hence it is necessary to provide
that when they no longer believe, they can be forced to believe."
~ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
467. "Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of
being alone."
~ Paul Tillich
468. "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
~ May Sarton
469. "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he
will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
470. "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
471. "Without great solitude no serious work is possible."
~ Pablo Picasso
472. "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion
of solitude."
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~ Aldous Huxley
473. "The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality
thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative
mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born."
~ Nikola Tesla
474. "People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking
contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness
lies in others."
~ Lionel Fisher, 'Celebrating Time Alone: Stories of Splendid Solitude'
475. "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as
solitude."
476. "You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down."
~ Charles Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
477. "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—
to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
~ Viktor Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning)
478. “Every mighty king was once a crying baby!
Every great tree was once a tiny seed!
Every tall building was once in paper!
And so I dream my dream!” she yelled."
~ Eunice Akoth
479. "You can fail without learning & you can learn without failing."
~ Tom Chi, Google X & Unreasonable Institute
480. "Do the gods approve what is right because it is right or whether what is right is right
because the gods approve it?"
~ Unknown
481. "A country that kills its dreamers, will only have nightmares."
~ Unknown
482. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci
483. "In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die."
~ Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)
484. "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be sparked."
~ Plutarch (AD 45 - AD 120)
485. “Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a
deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
486. “... the inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life
of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands.”
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~ W. Somerset Maugham
487. "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
~ Desmond Tutu
488. "We are a species at odds with its own instincts. Many among humanity are happy to
continue living on the animalistic instincts that come so easily to us, devoid of any
real clarity of thought, and blissfully unaware as such. This is the easy life, the life of
existing simply to exist, and to seek no greater purpose, which is primarily, the
discovery of knowledge. The pursuit of such beings is not “to understand that which is
currently deemed unfathomable,” but simply to attain happiness by fulfilling one’s
instinctual needs. Any degree of understanding such a person develops is therefore
purely to maximise their own happiness, it is not for the sake of attaining a degree or
depth of wisdom. To state this more simply: such a person’s appreciation of happiness
is greater than their appreciation of wisdom’s wonders.
The dim prioritize happiness, whereas the intelligent will sacrifice it if it is to lead to a
greater depth of understanding. In a sense, one could say the dim are more
emotionally selfish and ego driven whilst the intelligent, more sacrificial and curiosity
driven. The dim avoid pain and truth in preservation of happiness, denying truth when
it is abjectly apparent, inculcating themselves with lies of their own design.
Meanwhile, the intelligent endure the pains of truth to the detriment of the psyche
simply so they may acquire and intimately comprehend a depth of knowledge that
would otherwise be out of reach. Each of us makes a choice in this life between two
self-determining edicts: the pursuit of happiness, or the pursuit of knowledge. Of
course one can be happy and knowledgeable, but not without first experiencing great
pain. The dim will pay any price for happiness, whilst the intelligent, any price for
clarity of knowledge – particularly that which is verboten or mind-expanding. To be
intelligent is to exhibit a curiosity of the world around you, to prioritize cultivating
your understanding of reality at the expense of your gratification within it."
~ by Illimitable Men (http://illimitablemen.com/)
489. "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may
turn to glorious success."
~ Elbert Hubbard
490. "All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."
~ Magic Johnson
491. "I give Hope to Men..." "I keep none for myself."
~ Aragon, Lord of The Rings. Return of the King
492. "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the
instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
~ Epictetus
493. "A man is what he chooses to be."
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~ Trace Raynor's oft-spoken wisdom
494. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
495. “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business”.
~ Henry Ford
496. "The only bad questions are the ones we never asked."
~ Bill Nye the Science Guy
497. “You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if
you have not first become ashes?"
~Friedrich Nietzsche
498. "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
499. “How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without
ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and
not the world about them?”
~ Drizzt, Do'Urden (R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver)
500. "Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because
of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not
like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not
suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the
bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and
whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I
take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing."
~ Drizzt Do'urden
501. “Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change."
~ Drizzt Do'Urden
502. “These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to
continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought
the helplessness, the rage, and frustration. These were the friends who gave me my
life."
~ Drizzt Do'urden
503. “There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former
keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.”
~ Montolio The Ranger (R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn)
504. “Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate
optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could
and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world,
of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting
to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.”
~ R.A. Salvatore, The Thousand Orcs
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505. “I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
~ Issac Newton
506. “Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens
are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge
ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I
suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my
friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.”
~ Montolio The Ranger (R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn)
507. "It’s a great irony that they are willing to share the joke with you, even when you are
the joke but you don't really quite understand."
~ Unknown
508. "Men talk of killing time while time quietly kills them."
~ Unknown
509. "Responsibility without choice is torment. Choice without responsibility is greed.”
~ Leland R. Beaumont
510. "Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a
dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it."
~ Sai Baba
511. Anti-Spiral: "How can this be? Where are you drawing all this power from?"
Simon: "We evolve, beyond the person we were a minute before. Little by little, we
advance a bit further with each turn. That's how a drill works."
Anti-Spiral: "That is the path that leads to extinction. Why can't you see the pathetic
limitation of the Spiral race?"
Simon: "No, that's YOUR limitation! You sit here closed off, locking away other
lifeforms like some kind of king. That's nobody's limitation but your own!"
Yoko: "He's right, we humans used to have somebody much greater than us! For his
sake alone, we'll keep on moving forward!"
Nia: "I've staked everything! I make good use of the human spirit too!"
Simon: "Mark my words; this drill will open a hole in the universe. And that hole will
be a path for those behind us. The dreams of those who've fallen, the hopes of those
who will follow. Those two sets of dreams weaved together into a double helix,
drilling a path towards tomorrow. And that's Tengen Toppa. That's Gurren Lagann.
My drill is the drill that CREATES THE HEAVENS!"
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~ Simon The Digger, Gurren Lagann
512. "A true man never dies, even when he's killed!"
~ Kamina, Gurren Lagann
513. “You’ve got to be a man first before you can be a gentleman.”
~ John Waynne
514. "My Bro is dead! He's gone! But he's right there on my back, and here in my heart! He
lives on as a part of me! If you're gonna dig, dig to the heavens! No matter what's in
my way, I won't stop! Once I've dug through, it means that I've won! Just who the hell
do you think I am? I'm Simon. I'm not my Bro! I'M ME! SIMON THE DIGGER!"
~ Simon The Digger, Gurren Lagann
515. "The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately
with faulty arguments."
516. "Here a question arises: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The
answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the
two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in
being feared than in being loved. . . . Love endures by a bond which men, being
scoundrels, may break whenever it serves their advantage to do so; but fear is
supported by the dread of pain, which is ever present."
~ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
517. "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
~ Albert Camus
518. "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
~ Arthur Rubinstein
519. "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human
weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which
are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change
this for me. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the
most childish superstition."
~ Albert Einstein, last letter a year before his death.
520. “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives
branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots
going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes,
the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In
fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
~ Osho
521. “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known
unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are
also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.”
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~ Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
522. “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The
shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't
understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
~ Cynthia Occelli
523. “We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to
the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all
people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.”
~ Drizzt Do'Urden
524. “Forget not to show love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares.”
~ Hebrews 13:2
525. “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”
~ Michel De Montaigne
526. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to
reply.”
~ Stephen Covey
527. "Appearance is a consequence of fitness."
~ Mark Twight's
528. “Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He
who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an
independent force in the world. ”
~ Winston Churchill
529. "People are like mirrors. When we shine a light on a person, they reflect that light
back on us. If we shine a light on every person in the room, we end up being the
brightest man there."
~ Brett and Kate Mckay (Art of Manliness)
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/07/28/command-a-room-like-a-man/
530. "As you are, I was; as I am, so you shall also be"
~ Old Latin Maxim translated to English
531. “The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always
dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”
~ Shannon L. Alder
532. "It's not who spoke the words, but the words themselves that matter."
~ Unknown
533. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
~ William Butler Yeats
534. "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
535. “People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the
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best part of the mind.”
536. "It is a wise father that knows his own child."
537. “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments,
when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
~ Umberto Eco
538. "Humanity's future is in the stars. Below us, only our grave."
~ Mark Edward Fischbach aka Markiplier
539. "The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know.' The person who cannot
make that statement is one who will never learn anything. And I have prided myself
on my ability to learn."
~ Thrall, Warchief of the Horde (Warcraft Series)
540. "We must never forget that while striving to leave a better planet to our kids, it is just
as important that we strive to leave better kids to our planet.."
~ Steve Maraboli
541. " The First Axiom of Victory is to be other than where the enemy desire you to be.
The First Axiom of Stealth is to be other than where the enemy believes you to be.
The First Axiom of Freedom is that justice without force is powerless; force without
justice is tyranny."
~ Corvus Corax, Axioms of the Legiones Astartes, Raven Guard Legion
542. “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
~ Bruce Lee
543. "Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise
themselves above the ideas of the time."
~ Voltaire
544. "We have no nation, no philosophy, no ideology. We go where we're needed, fighting
not for country, not for government, but for ourselves. We need no reason to fight. We
fight because we are needed. We will be the deterrent for those with no other recourse.
We are soldiers without borders, our purpose defined by the era we live in."
~ Big Boss
545. "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
~ Mark Twain
546. “Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are
going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the
unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.”
~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
547. "One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."
~ John F. Kennedy
548. "Think like a man of action. Act like a man of thought."
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~ Henri Louise Bergson
(Meaning: It means think in terms of what you can do about the problem, whatever it
is, but don’t act until you’ve considered the implications of what you do. In short,
think before you act, but act upon what you think)
549. "If atheism is a religion, then not watching football is a sport."
~ Jake Williams
550. "Quite so... you see, but you do not observe."
~ Sherlock Holmes to Watson
551. "Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams."
~ S.A. Sachs
552. "Every battle is won or lost before the battle is fought."
~ Sun Tzu
553. "You have to be odd to be number one"
~ Dr.Seuss
554. "This is not a matter of how many pounds of meat one might be able to eat, or how
many times a year someone can go to the beach, or how many ornaments from abroad
one might be able to buy with his current salary. What really matters is that the
individual feels more complete, with much more internal richness and much more
responsibility."
~ Che Guevara
555. "Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will
come."
~ Unknown
556. "When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite
direction appears to have lost his mind."
~ C.S. Lewis
557. “A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and
short enough to create interest.”
~ Winston Churchill
558. "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain
than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton
fields and sweatshops."
~ Stephen Jay Gould
559. "Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another
time.
~ Chinese Proverb
560. "Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than
encouraging people who have not."
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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561. "Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."
~ Robert Brault
562. “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame
for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is
capable.”
~ Socrates
563. "Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than
gratitude"
~ Anne Frank
564. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.”
~ Hayley Williams
565. "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their
exits and their entrances"
566. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.”
~ Mark Twain
567. “And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve
it.”
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
568. “Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive
to make your presence noticed just make your absence felt.”
~ Unknown
569. “We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
~ John Henry Newman
570. "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
~ Unknown
571. "When faced with 2 choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the
question for you. But because in that brief moment when it's in the air, you'll know
what side you're hoping for."
~ Rothstein
572. "The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is
that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.
So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be
before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men,
they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an
injury."
~ Lao Tzu
573. "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed
of either success or failure in the mind of another."
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~ Napoleon Hill
574. "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
~ Voltaire
575. “Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite
you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for
yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all
experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek
out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time
for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any
more than you would expect others to live for you.”
~ Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
576. "Love the life you live, live the life you love."
~ Bob Marley
577. "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to
anything on which it is poured."
~ Mark Twain
578. "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"
~ Christopher Hitchens
579. "Don't trust a field sown early or too young a child. Weather shapes the crops, good
sense the child. Both are uncertain."
~ Wise Ring Member (King of Dragon Pass)
580. "The true leader does not do what is expedient; he does what others think impossible."
~ Terasarin, Clan King (Future Tribal King of Colymor)
King of Dragon Pass
581. "Man doesn't choose his weapon, the weapon chooses its owner"
~ Shinja, Battle Realms
582. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.”
~ Swedish Proverb
583. "Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by
the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by
means of war.”
~ Randolph Bourn
584. "The caveat is that cluelessness, when one ought to know better, is rarely persuasive.
Unenlightened people refuse to adjust their words or their actions in order not to give
offense; vindictive ones seek out the company of unenlightened people in order to be
offended at their lack of enlightenment."
~ Adam Gopnik (http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/france-iran-and-
the-affair-of-the-lunch-wine)
585. “Just get started,” Petersen said. “I think so many times running a business is like a
train barreling down the track in the middle of the night. I think the biggest mistake is
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trying to see too far down the track. All you have to do is see as far as your light
shines. Live in the moment and try to maximize what you’re doing. No one can
predict the future, and everything that you’re doing right today will inevitably change
the future. Nothing will make you feel better than just doing the work.”
~ Susan Petersen
586. “I am underestimated, but I’m really comfortable working from a place of being
underestimated,” Petersen said. “I love when people tell me that I can’t do something,
it ensures that in fact I will. My husband always says, ‘If you want to see Susan do
something, tell her she can’t do it."
~ Susan Petersen
587. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who
looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
~ Carl Jung
588. “Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to
communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views
which others find inadmissible.”
~ Carl Jung
589. “Depression is like a woman in black. If she turns up, don’t shoo her away. Invite her
in, offer her a seat, treat her like a guest and listen to what she wants to say.”
~ Carl Jung
590. “Everything about other people that doesn’t satisfy us helps us to better understand
ourselves.”
~ Carl Jung
591. "But in a country that uses laws to protect the corrupt and suppress those who are
courageous enough to voice their views, then it is time to stop being polite."
~ Fahmi Reza, rights activist
592. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed
in darkness.”
~ Jean Genet
593. "Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale. That he faced far greater and
more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That
he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the
most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend that he loved. That in
the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to
overcome darkness"
~ Sanya, offering his thoughts on Samwise Gamgee's role in The Lord of the Rings to
Harry Dresden in Changes by Jim Butcher
594. "Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than
you!"
~ Dr. Seuss
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595. “Say what you feel, and do what you say. Because those who mind don’t matter, and
those who matter don’t mind.”
~ Dr. Seuss
596. "He who tries to defend everything, defends nothing."
~ General Dietrich (Dark Hunters: Umbra Sumus, Paul Kerney)
597. "When one was sharpening a knife, at a certain point one had to stop, because the fine
edge was made blunt again by the very act of sharpening."
~ Dark Hunters: Umbra Sumus, Paul Kerney
598. "The wise commander utilises his enemy's weakness even more then he utilizes this
own strength."
~ Introit to the Principia Belicosa (Horus Heresy)
599. "Battles are won by the application of superior force; wars are won by the application
of superior resources."
~ The Principia Belicosa of Terra, Imperial Commentaries
600. "Superiority of force is key and the key to superiority is above all structure. With
structure comes order, with order the ability to carry out purpose, and only through
clear purpose can victory be perceived."
~ The Principia Belicosa, Ch. XXXIV, Vs. I-IV
601. “Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
~ Tolkien
602. “The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.”
~ Tolkien
603. “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
~ Tolkien
604. "People don’t like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are
not always pleasant."
~ Attributed to Helen Keller
605. "It is sad that one has to die before they are loved and appreciated."
~ Unknown
606. "We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite
different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: He is the one. But
you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing."
~ Vincent van Gogh
607. "All cruelty springs from weakness."
~ Seneca
608. "Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around."
~ Bill Watterson, cartoonist and creator of ‘‘Calvin & Hobbes’’
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609. "It is said history is a mirror of the future"
~ Pin Yathay (Preface, Stay Alive my Son)
610. "In politics, familiarity doesn’t breed contempt. It breeds votes."
~ Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist
611. "They are proud and willful, but they are true-hearted, generous in thought and deed;
bold but not cruel; wise but unlearned, writing no books but singing many songs, after
the manner of the children of Men before the Dark Years. ''"
~ Aragorn, The Two Towers
612. "In history, there are no rules, only outcomes."
~ Unknown
613. "Keeping a promise also means knowing when a promise can't be kept."
~ Unknown
614. “Price is what you paid, value is what you get!”
~ Warren Buffett
615. "I thank you, Gimli son of Glóin! I did not know that you were with us in the sortie.
But oft the unbidden guest proves the best company."
~ Éomer thanking Gimli after the attack on the Hornburg gates
616. "God is just one idea I don't accept. It's just that I get so tired of him getting credit for
all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is
no God! There is only man, and it's he who makes miracles!"
~ Lorraine Hansberry (Humanist and African American Woman)
617. "The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern,
uniquely American and uniquely destructive idea."
~ Andrew Weil
618. "Hurt people hurt people."
~ Unknown
619. “Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”
~ Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first Prime Minister
620. “Analyze the career of the successful business manager and you will find that he has
done two things: by elimination and selection he has fitted competent men to the
places at which the work focuses; by system he has so shifted detail to the shoulders
of subordinates as still to keep the essential facts under his own hand.”
-William A. Field of the Illinois Steel Company, 1919
621. “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of
sorrow.”
~ Chinese proverb
622. "Before setting out for revenge, first dig two graves: one for your enemy and one for
yourself"
~ Confucius, Chinese Philosopher.
623. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the
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greatest accomplishment."
624. "Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
~ Viktor E. Frankl
625. "If the purpose of learning is to score well on a test, we've lost sight of the real reason
for learning."
~ Jeannie Fulbright
626. "People will always notice your change of attitude towards them, but won't notice
their behavior that made your attitude change."
~ Unknown
627. "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
~ Benjamin Franklin
628. “I can guarantee you freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee you freedom after
speech."
~ Idi Amin, 3rd President of Uganda (African Dictator aka "The Butcher of Uganda")
629. "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."
~ Voltaire
630. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
~ Peter Drucker
631. "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
632. "The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.’"
~ Markusa Relius [Marcus Aurelius], circa M1 (Path of Heaven by Chris Wraight,
Horus Heresy series)
633. "The wise man learns from the deaths of others."
~ Common Imperium of Man maxim
634. "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
~ Robert Byrne
635. "When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
~ Nietzsche, circa M2
636. “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and
to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way
— that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
~ Aristotle
637. “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere
effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives -
choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
~ Aristotle
638. “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self.”
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~ Aristotle
639. “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
~ Aristotle
640. “The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
~ Aristotle
641. “Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
~ Aristotle
642. "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors."
~ Plato
643. “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.”
~ Aristotle
644. “Through discipline comes freedom.”
~ Aristotle
645. “He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or
ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”
~ Aristotle
646. “Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with
regard to their mode of life.”
~ Aristotle
647. “The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few
things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his
life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth while to live. He is of a
disposition to do men service, though he is ashamed to have a service done to him. To
confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination...
He does not take part in public displays... He is open in his dislikes and preferences;
he talks and acts frankly, because of his contempt for men and things... He is never
fired with admiration, since there is nothing great in his eyes. He cannot live in
complaisance with others, except it be a friend; complaisance is the characteristic of a
slave... He never feels malice, and always forgets and passes over injuries... He is not
fond of talking... It is no concern of his that he should be praised, or that others should
be blamed. He does not speak evil of others, even of his enemies, unless it be to
themselves. His carriage is sedate, his voice deep, his speech measured; he is not
given to hurry, for he is concerned about only a few things; he is not prone to
vehemence, for he thinks nothing very important. A shrill voice and hasty steps come
to a man through care... He bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making
the best of his circumstances, like a skillful general who marshals his limited forces
with the strategy of war... He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy
whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy, and is afraid of
solitude.”
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~ Aristotle, Ethics
648. "It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win
an argument with a stupid person."
~ KoreTen, r/ShowerThoughts at Reddit
649. "As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without
having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning
anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy."
~ Dennis Prager
650. "The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be
grateful that it is so."
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
651. “It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings,
they begin to take you as an animal.”
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
652. “Spoilt people live rotten lives.”
~ Habeeb Akande
653. "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
~ Otto von Bismarck
654. "We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it."
~ Che Guevara
655. "It's not our job to toughen our children to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job
to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless"
~ L.R. Knost
656. "One must harden without ever losing tenderness"
~ Che Guevara
657. "Let there be space in your togetherness."
~ Khalil Giban
658. "We now live in a world where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice,
universities destroy knowledge, government destroys freedom, the press destroys
information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy."
~ attributed to Chris Hedges
659. “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
~ Flannery O’Connor
660. "If a woman wants a gentleman then she needs to be a lady."
~ Unknown
661. “You’ve got to be a man first before you can be a gentleman.”
~ John Wayne
662. We cannot be so afraid of causing verbal offense that we lose the ability to have open
debate."
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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663. "Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you
must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.”
~ Robert Greene
664. "If she is not there for your struggles, do not share your success with her."
~ Attributed to the Illimitable Man.
665. “All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by silence.”
~ Herman Melville
666. “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is
admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
~ Voltaire, from CANDIDE
667. "Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to
his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to
himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid
to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored
away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of
such things in his mind."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
668. "The practical grounds the dreams of the theoretical. The theoretical gives flight to the
realities of the practical."
~ Robute Guilliman (The Primarchs, David Annandale)
669. "Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who
makes your world beautiful."
~ Unknown
670. "You can never be wise and be in love at the same time."
~ Bob Dylan
671. "Girls become women. Boys are forged and hammered into men."
~ Unknown
672. "A real woman is one who is genuinely nice, who likes the company of men, who
enjoys sex for its own sake, and who pays her own way. I'd do anything for a woman
like that."
~ Unknown
673. "Ruthlessness is the kindness of the wise."
~ Common Imperial Maxim
674. "Become the best version of yourself."
– Neil Strauss
675. "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to
him in his own language that goes to his heart."
~ Nelson Mandela
676. "When in doubt, remember that we don't always feel rationally, but always rationalize
how we feel... and watch your doubt grow even stronger."
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~ Kan Gao
677. "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."
~ Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo
678. “If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought
to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
679. "I think the saddest people always try to make everyone happy because they know
what it is like to feel worthless and don't want anyone else to ever feel like that"
~ Robin Williams
680. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
~ Plato
681. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
~ Lord Acton
682. “Seek to be worth knowing, rather than well known.”
~ Unknown
683. "Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. Weep, and you weep alone."
~ Solitude, By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Related Poem Content Details
684. “Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so
he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.”
~ from SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
685. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they
sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
686. “The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”
~ Unknown
687. "Everybody is looking for the right person, and nobody is trying to be the right
person."
~ Unknown
688. “Love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny.”
~ Paulo Coelho
689. “People are capable at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
~ Paulo Coelho
690. “People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel that they
don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.”
~ Paulo Coelho
691. “Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
~ Paulo Coelho
692. “The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t
talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the
cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If
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we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would
gather around a fire and tell stories.”
~ Paulo Coelho
693. "When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom
are you believed."
~ Paulo Coelho
694. "Because now he know where his treasure was."
~ Santiago's Thoughts, The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
695. "Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who
looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
~ Carl Jung
696. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I
thought and attended to my answer.”
697. "People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as
Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but
as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting."
~ Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins
698. “Endure, Mr. Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of the
Batman. He can be the outcast, he can make the choice that no one else can make, the
right choice.”
~ Alfred Pennyworth
699. "We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
~ Lord Baden-Powell
700. "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
701. “Seeing reality for what it is is the first step in changing it.”
– Tom Leykis
702. "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
~ John D. Rockefeller
703. "Why spend a dollar on a bookmark? ... Why not use the dollar as a bookmark?"
~ Steven Spielberg
704. "Give a man a mask and he will show his true face."
~ Oscar Wilde
705. “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for
him by circumstance.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson
706. "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The
really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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707. "That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone
else does too."
~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
708. "Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
~ Benjamin Franklin
709. "Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."
~ Henry Ford
710. "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
~ Plato, The Republic
711. "Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you,
grows you, or makes you happy."
~ Robert Tew
712. "If you want more ice cream, use a smaller spoon."
- Someone's Grandma
713. “You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
~ Tina Fey
714. "The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew
every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect
me to fit them."
715. "Before I came to America, I thought the streets were paved in gold. When I came
here I learned three things: The streets were not paved in gold, the streets weren't
paved, and that I was expected to pave them."
~ Unknown
716. "So avoid using the word 'very' because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is
exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason,
boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in
your essays."
~ John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society
717. “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of
men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of
others.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
718. "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call
a man cold when he is only sad."
~ Henry Longsfellow
719. "The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them."
~ Stephen King
720. "Art is how we decorate space, Music is how we decorate time"
~ Unknown
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721. “So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your
beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.”
~ Isaac Asimov
722. "If love blinds you from seeing the faults of the one you love, then hatred blinds you
from seeing the good things in the one you hate."
~ Abdul Aziz bin Marzuq
723. “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able,
but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence
cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
~ Epicurus
724. "A foolish man takes offense when it isn't meant. A wise man learns not to take
offense when it is"
~ Unknown
725. “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling
the world that you fear what he might say.”
~ Tyrion Lannister
726. "To be an interesting person you need to discuss interesting things;
to discuss interesting things you need to have knowledge on interesting things;
to have knowledge on interesting things you need to do interesting things."
~ Unknown
727. "A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a
result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important."
~ Bernie Sanders
728. “Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the
world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they
act offended if you even try.”
~ Ethan Hawke
729. "I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have
bread."
~ Mitch Hedberg
730. "You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be
somebody who hates peaches."
~ Dita Von Teese
731. "You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm."
~ Unknown
732. "If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left."
~ Unknown
733. "War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you
figure it out for yourself."
~ Unknown
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734. "When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite
direction appears to have lost his mind."
~ C.S. Lewis
735. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
~ Dr. Seuss
736. "When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't."
~ Louis C.K.
737. “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the
contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on
reading is a great achievement.”
~ B.F. Skinner
738. “When they go low, we go high..”
~ Attributed to Michelle Obama during the 2016 Democratic National Convention
(DNC)
739. "A wise man knows an ignorant man because he was once ignorant. But an ignorant
man doesn't know a wise man because he was never wise"
~ Ali ibn Abu Talib
740. "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
~ Henry Longfellow
741. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're
not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”
~ Dalai Lama
742. "Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed."
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
743. “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the
pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”
~ Henry Cloud
744. “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s
most popular media owner, creates no content. And Airbnb, the world’s largest
accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening.”
~ Tom Goodwin
745. "Telling someone they can't be sad because others have it worse is like saying
someone can't be happy because others have it better."
~ Unknown
746. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and
those who matter don't mind.”
~ Bernard M. Baruch
747. "Man is affected, not by events, but by his view he takes of them."
~ Epictetus
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748. "Follow the money. If you want to understand why something is happening, follow
the money. From where is it flowing, and into whose hands."
~ Unknown history teacher
749. "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who don't
have it"
750. "Diplomacy is the art of avoiding the appearance of victory."
~ Metternich, Arch-Diplomat
751. "Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim
too low and hit."
~ Bill Nicholson
752. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a
monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into
you”
~Friedrich Nietzsche
753. "When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't."
~ Louis C.K.
754. "The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that
no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make
up the biggest proportion of the population - the intelligent ones or the fools?"
~ Henrik Ibsen, a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright and poet
755. "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
~ C.G. Jung
756. "People who are brutally honest generally enjoy the brutality more than the honesty."
~ Richard Needham
757. "A key that can open many locks is a valuable key, but a lock that can be opened by
many keys is a useless lock."
~ Unknown
758. "Remember that excellence in goverment is not measured by how many powers you
take and laws you create, but in how many you do not have to use. A just society does
not require such sanction."
~ Roubute Gulliman (Angels of Caliban, Gav Thorpe)
759. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
~ J. Krishnamurti
760. "Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the
politicians as a joke."
~ Will Rogers
761. "Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. "
~ Eckhart Tolle
762. “Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To
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feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and
compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become
dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your
authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a ‘hot mess’ or having
‘too many issues’ are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring,
humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
– Anthon St. Maarten
763. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
~ David Viscott
764. “Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness which seems like a good idea 'till she grows up to trust men who
hurt her cause they look so much like you.”
~ Rupi Kaur
765. "If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of
the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value
as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all."
~ Yogi Bhajan
766. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
~ Wayne W. Dyer
767. "Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just
a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out,
like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign
of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When
the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a
monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."
~ The Joker
768. "..what a black, awful joke the world was."
~ The Joker (The Killing Joke)
769. “If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer
is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
~ Nora Roberts
770. "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
~ Leon Trotsky
771. "All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
~ Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
772. "To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of
excellence."
~ Lao Tzu
773. "If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."
~ Lao Tzu
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774. "Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."
~ Lao Tzu
775. "Safety is like air - it is only noticed when it is gone."
~ The Futurist, the Misandry Bubble
776. "Men believe the love matters for the sake of it. Women love opportunistically."
~ Rollo Tomassi, The Rational Male
777. "A guy don't walk on the lot lest he wants to buy. They're sitting out there waiting to
give you their money. Are you gonna take it?"
~ Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross)
778. "You are not responsible for her emotions."
~ Unknown, Red Pill
779. "Negative visualization leads to an abundance mentality.."
~ Unknown, Red Pill
780. "Those who see reality for what it is, can bend it to their will … those who see only
illusion, are bent to its will."
~ Unknown, Red Pill
781. “Women don’t love men. They love how men make them feel”
~ Unknown, Married Red Pill
782. "The definition of power is is not financial success, status or influence over others, but
the degree to which we have control over own lives"
783. "True power isn't about controlling others. but the degree to which you control the
course of your own life and your own choices."
784. "Hypergamy is a cruel mistress."
785. "Gramps told me (true story) to always.. "Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a
whore."
~ Obio1, The Red Pill Sub-Reddit.
786. "Spin more plates."
787. "It's classic social proof. i can share the most awesome world class advice with people
and half of them won't even blink. only people of higher status than themselves is
someone they'll take seriously. they'll ignore me until i find myself 13 steps of the
ladder above them, THEN suddenly they'll want to know my secret, and i'll tell them
literally the same thing i tell them now. and they wonder why i cut them out of my life
lol.
~ Red Pill
788. "If you look at any successful organization of males, you will notice a pattern: the
men who have the greatest stake in the success of the enterprise shoulder the most
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responsibility, receive the most respect, and enjoy the greatest benefits as thanks for
their contribution."
~ Red Pill
789. "Humility is an admirable quality too, don't get me wrong, but humility is only
genuine when you're confident of your own abilities. It takes a humble Man to walk
away from a fight that he knows he could win, but chooses not to engage in."
790. "Women should only ever be a compliment to a man's life, never the focus of it."
791. "Our great danger in this life is not that we aim too high and fail,
but we aim too low and succeed."
792. "People should be free to make whatever choices they want ... but they should not be
free of the responsibility for the consequences of those choices. In that vein, we
should encourage (not bind or force) people to pursue avenues that are most likely to
lead to them maximizing their full potential. If that means encouraging many women
to embrace more traditional feminine gender roles, then so be it. There will always be
exceptions, but the exception to the rule does not invalidate the rule."
~ Copper Fox, The Red Pill
793. "What you concede to at the start of a relationship sets the tone for what you'll put up
with for the rest of it."
~ Tom Torero
794. "Man's greatest weakness is his facade of strength. Woman's greatest strength is her
facade of weakness."
~ Unknown, The Red Pill
795. "Women are valued for being, men are valued for what they're doing."
~ Unknown
796. "I think somewhere in the sidebar there's a post about women maturing faster than
men but not continually maturing; this is why you have so many angry dudes on here
saying that women are children, and it's basically true. Tragically, they don't know any
better."
~ Unknown, Red Pill
797. “I’m glad we’re talking about this. I’m starting to understand where you’re coming
from.”
~ Unknown (Way to diffuse arguments)
798. "Women communicate covertly, men communicate overtly. Men convey information,
women convey feeling. In relating information, men priortize content, women
prioritize context"
799. "Dijo sin hablar - Told without speaking"
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800. "Don't wish things were easier, wish you were better"
801. "Always control the frame, but resist giving the impression that you are."
802. "If you have to make a difficult decision, go for the option that'll make the best story."
~ The Red Pill
803. "Put yourself first always, ain't nobody else who's gonna do it for you."
~ The Red Pill
804. "It's not all I want, unless that's all you've got"
~ Patrice O'neal.
805. "It's not a matter of skill, it's a matter of value. A buyer doesn't really need skill to buy
a car, but a seller needs skill to sell a car. Men are the sellers, women are the buyers.
It's a buyer's market."
~ Red Pill
806. "First line of Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Hypergamy laid
bare."
~ Red Pill
807. "The goal here is not to logically convince her to sleep with you. The goal is to get her
so attracted to you that she rationalizes walking around with you, then going back to
your place, then up to your bedroom, then..."
~ Red Pill
808. "Live the message, don't spam the platitudes."
~ Red Pill
809. "The reason there are no successful societies where women run things is not because
Mother Nature is a misogynist, it's because they don't work."
~ Bart Manson
810. "Feminism can only exist within a rich civilization. It's a byproduct of luxury. The
richer the country, the more likely you'll find things like feminism. The poorer the
country, the more likely you'll find traditional gender roles. Why? Because traditional
gender roles actually work. In a rich society you have the ability to waste time and
energy on novelties, much like a rich man can afford to flush money down a toilet."
~ Anonymous, Red Pill
811. "To ask the questions is to answer them."
~ Woh Kavi
812. "A woman is not happy until she's unhappy and her life is filled with drama."
~ Sandman
813. "The things you own end up owning you."
~ Tyler Durden.
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814. "Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter
for the pain of loss."
~ Cassandra Clare
815. "I find it a very good plan, when I cannot get a difficult discussion to please me, to
fancy that someone comes into the room and asks me what I am doing, then try at
once and explain to the imaginary person what it is all about.”
~ Charles Darwin
816. "While his heart still beats, while his flesh still moves, I cannot accept that a being
endowed with will-power can give in to despair."
~ from JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1864) by Jules Verne
817. "Don’t ask a fish how to catch fish, ask the fisherman"
~ Unknown
818. “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than
anyone else.”
~ Albert Einstein
819. "Game is being naughty while keeping her image nice."
~ Warlock's Law No. 2 (Red Pill Doctor)
820. "All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should
escape."
~ Victor Frankenstein of Justine Moritz from FRANKENSTEIN
821. "Those whom the gods love, grow young."
~ Oscar Wilde
"Therefore, those who grow young, whom the gods will love."
~ Unknown
822. "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"
~ A phrase spoken by Prometheus in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem,
"The Masque of Pandora" (1875).
823. "Success requires no explanation. Failure tolerates none."
~ Unknown
824. "There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces."
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
825. "If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions."
~ Peng Joon
826. “Opportunities are brilliantly disguised as impossible situations!”
~ The Book of Pook
827. "Perfection is boring. To be human is beautiful. "
~ The Book of Pook
828. "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club."
~ Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
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829. "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than
that."
~ George Carlin
830. "I dream, therefore I exist."
~ August Strindberg
831. "Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. When you do, pass it on to the
future."
~ Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid 2.
832. “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so
loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
~ from THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Dostoevsky
833. "...for if life, in the desire for which our essence and existence consists, possessed in
itself a positive value and real content, there would be no such thing as boredom: mere
existence would fulfil and satisfy us."
~ Schopenhauer (Using boredom’s presence to prove the vanity of human existence)
834. "If you would be a real seeker of truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt all things as far as possible."
~ René Descartes
835. "I learned that camping was never about comfort, it was about the company that kept
you warm at night."
~ Darren Yap (One of my friends).
836. "Common decency and civil behaviour are just a thin veneer over the animal at the
core of mankind that gets out whenever it has the chance."
Kyril Sindermann Primary Iterator of the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet during the latter
days of the Great Crusade.
(False Gods, by Graham Mcneill, Horus Heresy series)
837. " ‘Barbarian?’ said Sindermann. ‘A pejorative term indeed, my friend. Do not be so
quick to judge, we are not so different from the tribes of Old Earth as you might
think.’
‘Surely you’re not serious,’ asked Loken. ‘We are as different from them as a star
from a planet.’
‘Are you so sure, Garviel? You believe that the wall separating civilisation from
barbarism is as solid as steel, but it is not. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of
glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of pagan superstition,
fear of the dark and the worship of fell beings in echoing fanes.’ "
~ Kyril Sindermann
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Primary Iterator of the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet speaking to Garviel Loken,
Captain of 10th Company, Luna Wolves during the latter days of the Great Crusade
(False Gods, by Graham Mcneill, Horus Heresy series)
838. “Old sins have long shadows..”
~ Elephants Can Remember, Agatha Christie
839. “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
~ Eugene Ionesco
840. “[…] The art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
~ Georg Cantor
841. “It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settling a question without
debating it.”
~ Joseph Joubert
842. "Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a man has."
~ Hubert Humphrey
843. "Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. "
~ Eckhart Tolle
844. "We won't solve present problems with the same thinking that created them."
~ Albert Einsten
845. "Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
~ Christopher Hitchens
846. "When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not
know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I
understood the meaning of all three. And now, the twilight of my life, this
understanding has passed into contentment."
~ Last days of Ezio Auditore, 1524.
847. "Being courageous doesn't mean you aren't afraid; it just means you care more about
something else than what you fear."
~ Unknown
848. “So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious
talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts
category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing.
Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am
grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives
easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists,
scientists, and so forth.
However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If
you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left
a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
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~ Shannon L. Alder
849. "It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the
political functionaries of economic power."
~ Jose Saramago
850. "Men conquer women by conquering the world; women conquer the world by
conquering men"
~ Unknown
851. "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has
around him."
852. "Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself.
Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute."
~ from THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (1879–1880) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
853. "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical
soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
854. “It’s not who you know that counts. It’s what who you know knows about you that
counts!”
~ David Campbell
855. "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become a
just man by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, and
brave by performing brave actions."
~ Aristotle
856. "People believe what they want to believe and disregard the rest."
~ Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, musicians
857. "No psychologist has observed intelligence; many have observed intelligent behavior.
This observation should be the starting point or any theory of intelligence."
~ I. Chien, researcher
858. “The most important thing in communication is to hear, what isn’t being said.”
~ Peter Drucker
859. "A beautiful woman dies twice."
~ Lauren Becall
860. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having
new eyes."
~ Marcel Proust
861. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
862. “Surround yourself with people who believe in you more than you do in yourself.”
~ Gaby Natale
863. “Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But
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you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false
center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about
you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy
them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your
ego. This is suicidal.
Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside
yourself… Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not
conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there
would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not
worried what others say about you.. it is irrelevant! Your very self-consciousness
indicates that you have not come home yet.”
~ Osho
864. "In Germany we have a saying which roughly translates to "The customer is the
king.", which I like to extend with "On the emperor's territory."
~ vandaalen, Red Pill (http://archive.is/2XSUY#selection-7607.20-7621.0)
865. "If you talked to yourself friends like you talked to yourself, you wouldn't have any
friends."
~ Mike Cernovich (The Gorilla Mindset)
866. "Necessity overcomes morality. Never without regret. Never without shame. Yet even
immoral victory must outweigh moral defeat. The victor will have a chance to atone if
conscience demands. The vanquished lose any such opportunity."
~ Roboute Gulliman as quoted by Kaeria to Dorn
Master of Mankind, Aaron Dembski Bowden
867. “If a man ... makes a better mousetrap than his neighbor,
tho’ he builds his house in the woods, the world will make
a path to his door.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (attributed)
868. “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No
one is entitled to be ignorant.”
~ Harlan Ellison
869. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
~ "Elective Affinities" (1809) by Goethe
870. “At United, we strive for perfection. And if we fail, then we might just have to settle
for excellence.”
~ Sir Matt Busby
871. "Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers."
~ John Gardner, writer
872. “The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and
not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily”
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~ Plato
873. “Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if
you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder”
874. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
~ Seneca
875. "Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the
private sacrifices to reach them."
~ Vaibhav Shah
876. "Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the
perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson."
~ Paulo Coelho
877. “The hobbit is hallowed for his terrible and grace-filled journey and hollowed out by
it. His body seems too small for all that he endures but not so his heart. Fear, fatigue,
cold, hunger, and thirst torment him, but he continues out of love. Frodo’s struggle
shows that there are, in fact, two quests going on: his to destroy the Ring and the
Ring’s to dominate and destroy him. Despite the despair that it causes, which both fills
and empties him, the Ring-bearer remains as intent upon saving everyone as Denethor
is not. Frodo’s torn heart still beats, and it pushes past terror and hopelessness because
of Sam’s blessed aid and his own battered and bleeding will to do so. Both hobbits
teach us the great value of redemptive suffering.”
~ Anne Marie Gazzolo, Moments of Grace and Spiritual Warfare in The Lord of the
Rings
878. "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
~ Schopenhauer
879. "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be
meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this
because they can't tell good from evil."
~ from MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius
880. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”
~ Sonya Friedman
881. "Only a fool takes Khârn for a mindless brute or rabid dog. Under that blood-soaked
helm lurks an intelligence and cunning that makes him a masterful killer - trust me
when I say that there is a dark purpose in his madness."
~ Abaddon the Despoiler
882. "Someone gave me this glass, and I really like this glass.
It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly."
~ Achaan Chah Subato
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883. "All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the
strategy out of which victory is evolved."
~ Sun Tzu
884. "Live out of your imagination, not your history."
~ Stephen Covey
885. “True leadership often happens with the smallest acts, in the most unexpected places,
by the most unlikely individuals.”
~ Michelle Obama
886. "Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not
"making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a
person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher
standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
~ Peter F. Drucker
887. "I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never
believe me."
~ Camillo di Cavour
888. "Appearances are often deceiving."
~ Aesop
889. “The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible
truth of it. (...)
This is a truth we dare not acknowledge these days - because sameness is our religion
and heretics are no more welcome now than they ever were - but I’m going to
acknowledge it, because I’ve always felt that humility before the facts is the only
thing that keeps a rational man together. Be humble in the face of facts, and proud in
the face of opinions, as George Bernard Shaw once said. He didn’t, actually. I just
wanted to put some authority behind this observation of mine, because I know you’re
not going to like it.”
~ Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
890. “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
~ Euripides, The Bacchae
891. "You can go after whatever you want. You just cannot deny anyone else to go after
whatever they want."
~ Simon Sinek
892. "It's pointless for a man to gain the whole world yet lose his very self."
~ Harsh Agrawal
893. "Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let
yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous,
at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful,
more mysterious than the bland and timid masses."
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~ Robert Greene
894. “People care much more for how things look than how things are.”
~ Donna Lynn Hope
895. “The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in
reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is
absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.”
~ P.J. O'Rourke
896. “There are no ugly women, only lazy ones”
~ Helena Rubinstein
897. “When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
~ Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
898. "Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded
spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."
~ Robert South
899. “Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”
~ Thomas Carlyle, essayist and historian
900. "If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
~ Bill Gates
901. "We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
902. "Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest."
~ Pindar
903. "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
~ James F. Byrnes
904. "Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
~ Napolean
905. “The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s our broken idea of fairness. Meaning, our
idea of fairness is self-centered”
~ Tony Warrick
906. “It is the fairness of life that makes it seem unfair.”
~ Gugu Mona
907. "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
~ Vladimir Lenin
908. "By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt
of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely
controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators
ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System
today."
~ G. Edward Griffin
909. "It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and
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then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved."
~ W. Somerset Maugham
910. "Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work
that goes on behind the scenes."
~ Tom Ford
911. "The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the
scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."
~ Steven Furtick
912. "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the
scenes."
~ Felix Frankfurter
913. "Do you remember what I used to tell you, son? A man is what he chooses to be. It's
not how he's born, or how he's raised, that makes the man. It's his choices. Right now,
you're choosing to walk down a dark path I can't condone. But a man can turn his life
around with a single thought, a single decision. You can always choose to be
something new. Never forget that."
~ Trace Raynor's final message to his son (Devil's Due by Christie Goldie)
914. "To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the
childlike desire for recognition...The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
~ Albert Einstein
915. "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work,
and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
916. "The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and
the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the
products of his own thought."
~ Alan Watts
917. "Let us get a feeling for our battleground, before we lose ourselves in the detail of it."
~ Captain Galt, 1st Company Novamarines quoting Roboute Guilliman from the
Codex (Death of Integrity by Guy Haley)
918. "You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of
action."
~ from OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
919. "There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for
comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on
cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why
life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite the word, because a sketch is an
outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life
is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture."
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~ The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
920. “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst
thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
~ Robin Williams
921. "Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions."
~ The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
922. “To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this,
you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the
silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”
~ Deepak Chopra
923. "You could have grown cold, but you grew courageous instead. You could have given
up, but you kept on going. You could have seen obstacles, but you called them
adventures. You could have called them weeds, but instead you called them
wildflowers. You could have died a caterpillar, but you fought on to be a butterfly.
You could have denied yourself goodness, but instead you chose to show yourself
some self-love. You could have defined yourself by the dark days, but instead through
them you realized your light."
~ S.C Lourie
924. “Quality is simply giving people the product or service they really want and need.”
~ The One Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
925. "The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind with a vision and a blue print of
the desired result.”
~ Stephen Covey, p. 106, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
926. "It's every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest, and hold them
accountable if they're not."
~ Ahsoka Tano
927. "The solution to complexity is not more complexity. The solution to complexity is
simplicity."
~ Unknown (Sustainable Human)
928. “Well done is better than well said.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
929. "The day the body becomes dominated by pleasure is the day it will also be dominated
by pain"
~ Seneca
930. 'A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.'
~ Oscar Wilde
931. "I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who
only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more."
~ Jose Mujica (Uruguay's Former President, called the world's humblest president)
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932. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
~ Zig Ziglar
933. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs
to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the
deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a
worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
~ From Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech “The Man in the Arena”
934. “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”
~ Carl Sagan
935. "Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple
and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness
and remains far behind yours. Were it otherwise he would never have been able to
find those words."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
936. "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
937. “When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over
generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
~ Dresdin James, Author and TV Writer
938. "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"
~ Mike Tyson
939. "Give a man a mask and he will show his true face."
~ Oscar Wilde
940. "Winning is problematic. People like you more when you're working towards
something, not when you have it."
~ Drake
941. "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make
them think, they'll hate you."
~ Don Marquis
942. “Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves
responsibility.”
~ Herb Kelleher
943. "If I had a nickel for every woman who finds me unattractive, they would eventually
find me attractive."
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~ Unknown
944. "I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do
I have to participate in your self-image?"
~ Dave Chappelle
945. "A lot of parents will do anything for their kids, except let them be themselves"
~ Banksy
946. "The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world
fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
947. “A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.”
~ Herb Kelleher
948. "You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only
miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this
place, because you’ll never be this way ever again."
~ Azar Nafisi
949. "When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said: “At least the handle is
one of us.”
~ Turkish proverb
950. "You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be
somebody who hates peaches."
~ Dita Von Teese
951. “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is
the principal difference between a dog and man.”
~ Mark Twain
952. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
~ Dale Carnegie
953. "Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone
is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me."
~ Al Capone
954. "The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles."
~ Oren Harari
955. “We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than
someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train
people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide
customer service. But we can’t change their DNA.”
~ Herb Kelleher
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956. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
~ Thomas Merton
957. "Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment."
~ Rachel Wolchin
958. “You’ll end up really disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for
them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.”
~ Unknown
959. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others
because of your own limited imagination.”
~ Mae Jemison
960. “It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine
myself without it.”
~ Herb Kelleher
961. “One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected
and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.”
~ Herb Kelleher
962. “You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn’t going to shower gold coins
on you just because you have a good idea. You’re going to have to work like crazy to
bring that idea to the attention of people.”
~ Herb Kelleher
963. “I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.”
~ Herb Kelleher
964. "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
~ George Carlin
965. ‘Pride doomed your brother.’ Said Thiel simply. ‘Pride undoes the mightiest. Do not
be proud, my lord.’
‘Are you not proud, my son?’
‘I am proud,’ said Thiel. ‘To be Ultramarine, to have you as my gene-sire, to have
fought with you for so long. But I am not proud enough to let it kill me.’
~ Aeonid Thiel, 2nd Company Captain of the Ultramarines conversing with Roubute
Guilliman (Dark Imperium by Guy Haley)
966. "When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that
you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences
for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice."
~ Gary Zukav
967. "Democracy works when people claim it as their own."
~ Bill Moyers
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968. "The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted."
~ Mance Rayder
969. “I do a really great job while I’m at work, but when the day is done, it’s done, and I
sign off. There will always be more work to do, never enough hours in the day to do
it, but the trick is to remind yourself that your job is just one component of your life,
not the whole thing. ”
~ Kayla Buell, author and blogger
970. "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
971. "You offer one hand, but arm the other. Wise, Shepard."
~ Grunt, Mass Effect 2
972. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is
the principal difference between a dog and a man."
~ Mark Twain
973. "You can only keep a dog on a leash so long before it remembers it's a wolf."
~ Lucious The Eternal, The Crimson King, Graham Mcneil
974. "Old friends make for the worst enemeies."
~ Magnus the Red, The Crimson King, Graham Mcneil
975. 'They will be, don't worry. The men are working as hard as they can, I assure you.'
'Good. They are a credit to you, Major Satria.'
'Thank you, though you may want to tell them that.'
'I intend to. When they hate me more than their worst nightmare.'
'Believe me, I think they hate you more than that already.' said Satria. 'The fact that
you so easily outperform them in
training infuriates them. I think they feel you are showing off.'
'They are correct: I am showing off by training with them.' said Learchus. 'I want them
to know that I am superior to them,
for when it comes time for me to build them up, they must feel that my praise truly
means something. I will make them feel
like they are heroes, I will make them believe they are the greatest warriors in the
galaxy.'
'You're a sneaky one, aren't you?' said Satria eventually.
'I have my moments.' smiled Learchus.
~ Sergeant Learchus 4th Company Ultramarines to Major Satria of the Imperial Guard
(Warriors of Ultramar by Graham Mcneil)
976. 'Do you think Lord Calgar would have allowed Chordelis to be destroyed?'
Tiberius rubbed a hand across his skull, considering the question before replying.
'I do not know, Uriel. Our Chapter Master is a man of great wisdom and compassion,
but he is also a strategist of sound
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logic and I think that perhaps you and I are too fond of the idea of saving everyone we
can. Lord Inquisitor Kryptman was
correct when he said that sometimes you need to lose the occasional battle to win the
war.'
'I cannot accept that.' said Uriel. 'The destruction of the Emperor's loyal subjects
cannot be right.'
'We cannot always do what is right, Uriel. There is often a great gulf in the difference
between the way things are and the
way we believe they should be. Sometimes we must learn to accept the things we
cannot change.'
'No, lord admiral, I believe we must endeavour to change the tilings we cannot accept.
It is by striving against that which is
perceived as wrong that makes a great warrior. The primarch himself said that when a
warrior makes peace with his fear
and stands against it, he becomes a true hero. For if you do not fear a thing, where is
the courage in standing against it?'
'You are an idealist, Uriel, and the galaxy can be a cruel place for people like you.'
said Tiberius. 'But still I wish there were
more who thought as you do. You are a great warrior, able to bring swift death to your
enemies, but you have never lost
sight of why you fight: the survival of the human race.'
~ Admiral Tiberius to Uriel Ventris, 4th Company Captain, Ultramarines
(Warriors of Ultramar by Graham Mcneil)
977. "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping
yourself, the other for helping others."
~ Audrey Hepburn
978. "Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm"
~ Pope Paul VI
979. "Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty
of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated."
~ Dag Hammarskjold
980. "A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the
myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he
is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."
~ Alanis Morissette
981. "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by
religion."
~ Arthur C. Clarke
982. "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn
is hammering on cold iron."
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~ Horace Mann
983. "Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
~ Augustus Hare
984. "A person who doesn't understand the value of a penny would never be able to enjoy
the true value of a dollar."
~ Harsh Agrawal
985. "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of
mankind."
~ Voltaire
986. "I walk slow, but I never walk back."
~ Abraham Lincoln
987. “Dreams don’t work unless you do”
~ John C. Maxwell
988. "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures
success to the weak, and esteem to all."
~ George Washington
989. "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."
~ Stephen McCranie
990. "As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and
bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them
rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have."
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
991. "Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing
brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be
swept away."
~ Marcus Aurelius
992. "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your
job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."
~ Mark Twain
993. "A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
~ Mark Twain
994. "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
~ Mark Twain
995. "Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."
~ Mark Twain
996. "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
~ Mark Twain
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997. "Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. Weep, and you weep alone."
~ Solitude, By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
998. "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of
public affairs for private advantage."
~ Ambrose Bierce
999. "To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
~ Nelson Mandela
1000. “What wins the fight is what wins the fight. Ultimately, nothing should be excluded if
that exclusion leads to defeat”
~ Ultramarine axiom as said by the Aeonid Thiel, citing Robute Guilliman (Know No
Fear by Dan Abnett)
1001. "The ultimate rule that no rule is unbreakable."
~ The Unbreakable Rule, as recited by Marius Gage, First Chapter Master of the
Ultramarines citing Robute Guilliman
(Know No Fear by Dan Abnett)
1002. "There are two types of people. One type feels like it to do it. Another type has to do it
to feel like it. Who you gonna be?"
~ Unknown
1003. "The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show
that he knows where he is going."
~ Napoleon Hill
1004. “We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for
masturbation.”
~ Lily Tomlin
1005. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known
suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that
fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people
do not just happen.”
~ Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
1006. "You don't know the things I dream," said Perturabo. "No one does, no one ever cared
enough to find out."
~ Angel Exterminatus by Graham Mcneill (Horus Heresy Series)
1007. "The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you
unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too
sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a
difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren’t
always easy to be around — and that’s okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred
percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you
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may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad.
But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth
as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can
be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving
of compassion and kindness."
~ Daniell Koepke
1008. "I believe the world would be an altogether different place if we all did work that
actually mattered to us."
~ Scott Dinsmore (Mountainer)
1009. "Madness can take many forms, but none so contemptible as man's belief in a
mythology of his own making. A world view buttressed by dogmatic desperation
invariably leads to single-minded fanaticism, and a need to do terrible things in the
name of righteousness. This man is an animal - rabid, destructive, and incapable of
nuanced understanding."
~ The Ancestor's Reflections on the Fanatic (The Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson
Court)
1010. "There's no justice in this world, not unless we make it. You loved your family,
avenge them."
~ Littlefinger
1011. "Always keep your foes confused. If they don't know who you are or what you want,
they can't know what you plan to do next."
~ Littlefinger
1012. "Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at
dinner."
~ Tywin Lannister
1013. "Leave one wolf alive...and the sheep are never safe."
~ Arya, disguised as Walder Frey, murders many more Freys
1014. "A lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of the sheep."
~ Tywin Lannister
1015. "My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through
their hearts."
~ Jon Snow to Tormund
1016. "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or to accept
the responsibility for changing them."
~ Dennis Waitely
1017. "Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back
when the pool of their blood edges up too close."
~ from Invisible Monsters, also, by Chuck Palahniuk
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1018. "We're all broken; that's how the light gets in."
~ Ernest Hemingway
1019. "You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"
~ Donald Trump
1020. "Nature doesn't just adapt. Nature cheats, changes the rules, and slips out the back
door with your wallet while you're still trying to figure out what the hell happened."
~ Maren Ayers (Starcraft II)
1021. "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
~ John Wooden
1022. "I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour
from them unceasingly."
~ from "The Unnamable" (1954) by Samuel Beckett
1023. "If society is defined by how well its members comprehend one another's interests and
culture, the protoss manage to eclipse us merely by existing. You call them detached?
They connect with each other's emotions instinctively. They share dimensions of
understanding as easily as we breathe. We remain so very, very alone. Our
relationships are childish by comparison."
~ Jake Ramsey (Starcraft II)
1024. "Design must be simple. Elegant. Implementation, less so. Sequences must change.
Intent static, product fluid. Always can improve. Stressers reveal flaws. Flaws reveal
potential. Always improving. Good."
~ Abathur (Starcraft II)
1025. “Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define
you.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
1026. "At times of war, strive for peace. In times of peace, prepare for war."
~ Unknown
1027. "Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan."
~ Simon Sinek
1028. "There are two types of people. One type feels like it to do it. Another type has to do it
to feel like it. Who you gonna be?"
~ Unknown
1029. "The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show
that he knows where he is going."
~ Napoleon Hill
1030. “The desire of the man is for the woman. The desire of the woman is for the desire of
the man.”
~ Madame de Stael
1031. "Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."
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~ Bill Nye
1032. "People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply
proves what you believe."
~ Simon Sinek
1033. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
~ Stephen Covey
1034. "When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are
emotionally invested, they want to contribute."
~ Simon Sinek
1035. "Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still
show respect in response."
~ Simon Sinek
1036. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we
call a man cold when he is only sad.”
~ Henry Wadsworth
1037. "To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
1038. "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do
nothing for him.”
~ Malcolm S. Forbes
1039. "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at
the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every
once in a while.”
~ Haruki Murakami
1040. “For this purpose, I am prepared to die, but there is no purpose for which I am
prepared to kill”
~ Gandhi
1041. "If there is a good reason why it is ‘No,’ then it should remain ‘No,’ but the man must
be told politely. You lose nothing by being polite."
~ Lee Kuan Yew
1042. "Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not
deserve them."
~ M.F. Moonzajer
1043. “How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about
themselves.”
~ Paulo Coelho
1044. "What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."
~ Oscar Wilde
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1045. "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is
life."
~ Jean-Luc Picard
1046. “The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed
the world.”
~ Alexander von Humboldt
1047. "Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth."
~ Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek philosopher)
1048. "We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
~ Albert Schweitzer
1049. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all
clean.”
~ Maya Angelou
1050. "This is how liberty dies with thunderous applause.."
~ Padme (Star Wars Episode III)
1051. "If God wishes to be known, cherished, thanked, why does he not show himself under
his favorable features to all these intelligent beings by whom he wishes to be loved
and adored?"
~ Percy Shelley
1052. "The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is."
~ Kino's Journey (Keiichi Sigsawa)
1053. "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."
~ Lord Acton
1054. "Grant me the strength to accept the things that I cannot change, the courage to change
the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
~ Words inscribed on Antonidas of Dalaran's Silver Coin (Warcraft Series)
1055. "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps
when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something
sitting down."
~ Charles F. Kettering
1056. "When you look at a person with rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like
flags."
~ Unknown
1057. "What is to give the light must endure the burning."
~ Viktor E. Frankl
1058. "Consider their reality in which they base their decisions."
~ Unknown
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1059. "Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another."
~ Thomas Hobbes
1060. "The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm."
~ Swedish Proverb
1061. "Well done is better than well said."
~ Benjamin Franklin
1062. "Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized
knowledge to practical tasks."
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
1063. "I am more than I appear to be, all the world's strength and power rests inside me"
~ Unknown
1064. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings
having a human experience."
~ Unknown
1065. "When we are born, we are crying while the world rejoices. We should then live our
lives in such a way that when we die, the world cries while we are rejoicing."
~ Yogi Raman
1066. "The assumption of permanence is the illusion of every age"
~ Unknown
1067. "What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be
defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is
invincible."
~ Cao Cao
1068. "In eternal battle mankind can find greatness. In eternal peace it will find destruction."
~ Mein Kampf
1069. "When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
~ Ronald Reagen
1070. "When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
1071. “For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an
explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.”
~ Leo Tolstoy on Finding Meaning in a Meaningless World
1072. "The main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. Only about
15% of time, money and manpower is spent on espionage and such. The other 85% is
a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures,…or
psychological warfare."
~ Yuri Bezmenov, former KGB spy. Defected and escaped to America.
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1073. "Read what you love until you love to read."
~ Unknown
1074. "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong
horse."
~ Osama Bin Laden (cited by Mark Styme in America Alone).
1075. "A fallen camel attracts many knives."
~ Mark Styme in America Alone
1076. "Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation.
You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I
will."
~ Napoleon Hill
1077. "When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to
go out and do something."
~ John Keble
1078. "God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease."
~ Albert Camus
1079. "A child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
~ Unknown
1080. “Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love
for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish to embrace all experience
and encounters in life or seek escape from various aspect of human nature. How we
resolve to address existential anguish becomes a large part of our personal story.”
~ Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
1081. “Humans recognize the duality, autonomy, and latitude range of the mind and the
body, and all humans comprehend their impending mortality. Unlike other animals,
humankind knows despair brought about by understanding the inevitability of death of
all living creatures. The radius of human thought touching upon the longitude of our
transient existence causes infinite pain. Seeking to ameliorate existential anguish
incites us to ponder spiritual matters, and this sphere of mental activity spurs us to
contemplate the perimeter of unknown frontiers. Our ability to understand the
compass of life and death allows us to view the circumference of the world as
consisting of a past, a present, and a future in relation to our own lives. How a person
views the range of their earthly life and how a person rationalizes their march towards
a deathly outback creates a system of beliefs that separate people into classes, and the
variations amongst class members’ belief systems supplements who we think we are.”
1082. “Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love,
art, and truth – will end. All aspects that make life hideous – pain, poverty, illness,
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betrayal, hate, crime, war – will also end. The fact that human life is a mere blip on a
cosmic scale is no reason for personal angst as we came from nothingness and will
return to the great void that birthed us.”
1083. “A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many
humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom they trusted to someday
betray them. People inevitably witness the death of their loved ones. We also witness
acts of depravity committed by criminals that lurk in every society and rouge acts of
scandal committed by government officials in charge of the public welfare. A person
must nonetheless resist personal discouragement, sadness, dejection, and
despondency. I must reach an accord with pain, suffering, and anguish, or forevermore
be tortured by reality while constantly seeking to escape from the inescapable agony
of being.”
1084. “…ours is a world about which we pretend to have more and more information but
which seems to us increasingly devoid of meaning.”
~ Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
1085. “Some prisons don’t require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their
perception that they belong there.”?
~ Lysa Terkeurst
1086. "How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to
be okay."
~ Khalil Gibran
1087. "There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self
respect, or his self–confidence. He is still a King."
~ Orison Swett Marden
1088. "Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases,
should be understood as nothing less or more than what they are,
an expression of our deepest human nature. By recognizing their traits in ourselves
and reflecting upon them, we may be able both to contain them and to put them to
good use."
~ Neel Burton in (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-
seek/201209/the-meaning-madness)
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1089. “You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”
~ Wayne W. Dyer
1090. "The most beautiful things are those that are whispered by madness and written down
by reason. We must steer a course between the two, close to madness in our dreams,
but close to reason in our writing."
~ André Gide
1091. "People in the depressive position are often stigmatized as 'failures' or 'losers'. Of
course nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive
position it is because they tried too hard or taken on too much. So hard and so much
that they have made themselves ill with depression. In other words, if these people are
in the depressive position, it was simply because their world was not good enough for
them. They wanted more. They wanted better. They wanted different, not just for
themselves, but for all those around them. So if they are failures and losers, this is
only because they set the bar far too high. They could of swept everything under the
carpet and pretended as so many people do, that all is for the best and the best of
possible worlds. However, unlike most people, they had the strength and the honesty
to admit that something was amiss; to admit that something wasn't quite right. So
rather than being failures or losers they are all the opposite. They are ambitious, they
are truthful, they are courageous, and that is precisely why they became ill. To make
them believe that they are suffering from some mental disorder, or some chemical
imbalance in the brain, and that their recovery depends entirely or even mostly on
popping pills is to do them and to do us an immense disfavor. It is to deny them the
opportunity, not only to identify and address important life problems, but also to deny
them the opportunity to develop a more refined perspective and a deeper
understanding of themselves and of the world around them; and therefore, to deny
them the opportunity to develop their highest potential as human beings."
~ Dr. Neel Burton?
1092. "..Because of knowledge. Because a well-meaning teacher brought a perspective they
weren't yet ready to know."
~ Konrad Curze, The Abyssal Edge by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
1093. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible
for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
1094. "You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
~ Charles Buxton
1095. "The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered
with darkness and struggle to reach the light."
~ Sandra Kring
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1096. “Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in
this world.”
~ Helen Keller
1097. "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
~ Les Brown
1098. “If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.”
~ Jodie Foster
1099. "The way you do anything is how you do everything."
~ Unknown
1100. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings
having a human experience."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1101. "Omnes te moriturum amant"
~ Everyone loves you when you're on your deathbed (from House MD)
1102. "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
1103. "The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese."
~ Jeremy Paxman
1104. "The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom."
~ VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man’s
Search for Meaning
1105. "You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you
can’t have it."
~ Dr. Robert Anthony
1106. “I believe that success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations
you’re willing to have."
~ Tim Ferris
1107. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man."
~ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists
1108. "Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action."
~ Walter Anderson
1109. "When a guest comes he's a prince. When he sits he's a prisoner. When he leaves he's
a poet"
~ Bedouin proverb
1110. "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
~ Virginia Woolfe
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1111. “In a gold rush, do not mine the gold. Sell the pick axes to the miners that mine the
gold.”
~ Unknown
1112. "Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when
you have everything."
1113. "People should not be afraid of their goverment. The goverment should be afraid of its
people."
~ V for Vendetta
1114. "I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares more is none."
~ V for Vendetta quoting Macbeth
1115. "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim
fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."
~ Lao Tzu
1116. “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
~ Lao Tzu
1117. "To anyone that ever told you you’re no good... They’re no better.
~ Hayley Williams
1118. "What I do is temporary, but what I leave behind is forever."
~ Mark Edward Fishbach aka Markiplier
1119. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love
yourself to get anything done in this world."
~ Lucille Ball
1120. "It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself."
1121. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
~ Thomas Jefferson
1122. “The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent
contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands
of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering
with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites,
thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there
ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the
population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of
electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people
are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any
rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the
properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no
good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
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~ Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
1123. “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which
we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly
follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been
originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone
cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless
forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
~ Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
1124. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to
know itself.”
~ Carl Sagan
1125. “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
~ Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
1126. "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."
~ Arthur Kessler
1127. "Self-love seems so often unrequited."
~ Anthony Powell
1128. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
~ Ram Dass
1129. "Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love
anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."
~ Thomas Traherne
1130. "What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment
of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a
business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own
self-love."
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
1131. "Cruel men make cruel warriors make cruel lords."
~ Roboute Guilliman (Devastation of Baal by Guy Haley)
1132. "These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them."
~ Rumi
1133. "Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things
happen to you."
~ Mary Tyler Moore
1134. "Transformed people transform people."
~ Richard Rohr
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1135. "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
~ Kenji Miyazawa
1136. “Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories,
legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social
world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled
sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and
practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is
that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a
perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete
exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories,
and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies,
and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our
personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each
day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart
our quest into an
uncertain future.”
1137. “Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life
requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing
provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live
knowing the absurdity that we must die.”
1138. "I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought
and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love."
~ Viktor E. Frankl
1139. "If we take man as he is we make him worse. If we take man as he should be we make
him capable of becoming what he can be."
~ Viktor Frankl
1140. "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be
meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this
because they can't tell good from evil."
~ from MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius
1141. “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
~ Anton Chekhov
1142. "Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his
own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."
~ Viktor E. Frankl
1143. “Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not."
~ Unknown
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1144. "Self-congrulation is a sign of maturity. Seeking approval is a sign of inmaturity."
~ Jim Rohn
1145. "Know the other, know yourself and victory will be not at risk; know the grounds,
know the natural conditions and victory will be total."
~ Sun Tzu
1146. "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what
we have already done."
~ Henry Longfellow
1147. “Remember: When people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they
they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and
how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”
~ Quoted from Neil Gaiman, from Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
1148. "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?"
~ Unknown
1149. “Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to
them any prospect of satisfaction, but immediately they turn an introspective eye and
ask, ‘Am I happy?’ and at once from their innermost being a voice answers distinctly,
‘No, you are as poor and as miserable as before.' Then they think it was the object that
deceived them and turn precipitately to another. But the second holds as little
satisfaction as the first…Wandering then through life restless and tormented, at each
successive station they think that happiness dwells at the next, but when they reach it
happiness is no longer there. In whatever position they may find themselves there is
always another one which they discern from afar, and which but to touch, they think,
is to find the wished delight, but when the goal is reached discontent has followed on
the way stands in haunting constancy before them.”
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1150. “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone
else.”
~ Judy Garland
1151. "If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their
religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with
this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This
is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed."
~ Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razil
1152. “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is
when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the
future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
~ David M. Eagleman
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1153. “Life is a game and you are the player. As you master the game, so you also create it.”
~ Jay Woodman
1154. "There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of
continuing the play."
~ James P. Carse
1155. "I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person
present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying."
~ Gandalf
1156. "Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come
from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter."
~ Gandalf
1157. "It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We
do not!"
~ Gandalf
1158. "The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart."
~ Gandalf
1159. "A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship."
~ Aragorn
1160. "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the
succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we
know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they
shall have is not ours to rule."
~ Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings: Return of The King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
1161. "There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West.. If more of us
valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But
sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.."
~ Last Words of Thorin II Oakenshield (The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien)
1162. "In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! We are not bound for ever to the
circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. Farewell!"
~ Last words of Aragorn, King Elessar of the Realms of Men
(The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien)
1163. “Happiness is not pleasure. Happiness is victory.”
~ Zig Ziglar
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1164. "Challenge of the Seasons For every season there is a trial, and for every trial a
hardship. Many do not pass such times, but many others do. So what is the trick? Do
we take like the rocks, both suborn and strong, and fight the seasons one by one? Do
we take to the wisdom of the trees who mould to every change? Or the vast expanses
of the timeless rivers? All have survived the age of seasons and are masters in their
own ways, but none have truly mastered the might of the seasons. With time even the
largest of rocks can crumble and break. A single tongue of flame can consume entire
forests. And a dry age can devour the largest of rivers. So what hope do we mere
specks of dust have to fight the struggle of the ever changing age of trials? To survive
the test of the seasons you must take to the wisdom of all the masters around you. You
must unyielding, stubborn and strong like the rock. You must be wise and as adaptable
as the tree. And you must flow as easy as the river. But more than this, you must adopt
the greatest lesson life has to teach you, numbers. There is no I, only we. A rock that
stands alone, as strong as it may be, will falter and chip away with time until it is but a
grain. But together with the help of their brethren one rock can help to form a
mountain, vast and immovable to stand against the test of time. Even the countless
grains of sand that stand together can hold back the wrath of the thundering sea. A tree
that stands alone falls alone to the harsh weather, but together they can form the
greatest of forests, stretching as far as the eye can see, protecting each other in many
ways. And though a single stream may thin and loose its way, when built with another
a river can be forged. An alliance of power and might, standing against even the
harshest of heats and strong enough to clear any obstacle that stands in its way. But it
doesn't stop there. There are many masters in life that can teach us if we are willing to
listen. My heart and ears are open, and my hand is held to you: my ally, my brethren,
my friend."
~ D. Caldarelli
1165. Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising

he rode singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
Hope he rekindled, and in hope he ended;
over death, over dread, over doom lifted
out of loss, out of life, unto long glory.
~ A song for King Theoden by Rohirrim minstrel Gléowine
(The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter VI: "Many
Partings")
1166. "The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
~ Joseph Campbell
1167. "If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s."
~ Joseph Campbell
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1168. "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
~ Joseph Campbell
1169. Grant me the serenity,
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
~ Unknown
1170. "Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive
to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt."
~ Unknown
1171. "Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence."
~ Unknown
1172. “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need
not be feared.”
1173. "..Trust is predicated on the degree of one’s control far more than it is any sense of
blind loyalty.”
~ Illimitablemen
1174. “The low-value man can do nothing right, the high-value man can do nothing wrong.
The higher your social market value, the less the rules apply.”
~ Illimitablemen
1175. “Men control an interaction by being non-reactive. Women control an interaction by
being hyper-emotional.”
~ Illimitablemen
1176. “Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.”
~ William Shatner
1177. “The courage of a man lies in commanding, a woman’s lies in obeying.”
~ Aristotle
1178. "We're not here because we're free ; we're here because we're not free."
~ Agent Smith (The Matrix)
1179. "The most dangerous human is the one who has a lot to protect and nothing to lose."
~ Unknown
1180. "Political correctness is Fascism pretending to be manners."

~ George Carlin
1181. "Humanists recognize that it is only when people free to think fo themselves using
reason as their guide that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in
satisfying human needs and serving human interests."
~ Issac Asimov
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1182. "Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like."
~ Anton Chekhov
1183. "I see you perfectly well from here, in my darkness. Can you say the same from over
there in the light?"
~ attributed to Konrad Curze, addressing Lion El' Jonson.
1184. "If you want to see a rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."
~ Unknown
1185. "Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a
very small man can cast a very large shadow."
~ Lord Varys (Game of Thrones)
1186. "When the queen declares one King and the Hand declares another, who do the
soldiers follow? The man who pays them."
~ Lord Varys (Game of Thrones)
1187. "We don't even know what our cage looks like because have never seen it from the
outside."
~ Gore Vidal
1188. "Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later
in uglier ways."
~ Sigmund Freud
1189. "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
1190. "An expert makes no sound, a legend uses sound to his advantage."
~ Unknown
1191. "You can't carpet the world, but you can wear slippers."
~ Unknown
1192. "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
~ Unknown
1193. "Loyalty is a consequence of leadership. And leadership is a touchstone of
competence."
~ Unknown
1194. "Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake."
~ Napoleon
1195. "Watch what the idiots are doing and the do the opposite>"
~ Robert Kiyosaki
1196. "Nothing happens to a man by which he is not fitted by nature to bear."
~ Marcus Aurelius
1197. "The man who never made a mistake never made much."
~ Unknown
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1198. "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
~ Thomas Jefferson
1199. "Only is better than best."
~ Srinivas Rao
1200. "A man can cut his own hair, but it doesn't improve his appearance."
~ Unknown
1201. "A generous deed should not be checked with cold counsel."
~ Faramir (Lord of the Rings: Return of the King)
1202. "Everything repeats over and over again. No one learns anything because no one lives
long enough to see the pattern."
~ Marceline (Adventure Time)
1203. "Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no
one will believe in you and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the
opposite happens. Its that simple."
~ 50 Cents (The 50th Law by Robert Greene and 50 Cents)
1204. "You are an unceasing flow of experiences. To be alive is to have the capacity to
experience reality."
~ Unknown
1205. "Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no
title or position."
~ Brian Tracy
1206. "Power isn't control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A
leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone
willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their
own."
~ Beth Revis
1207. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the
one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
~ Ronald Reagan
1208. "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and
the will to carry on."
~ Walter Lippman
1209. "There is only thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."

~ Fyodor Dostoevski
1210. "A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belongs to
himself."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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1211. "A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads
lives only one."
~ George R. R. Martin
1212. "A sorrow shared is half a sorrow. A joy shared is twice a joy."
~ Unknown
1213. "You can win a greedy person by offering money, a proud person by pretending your
devotion, you can win a fool by agreeing with him, and you can win a scholar by truth
and only truth."
~ Chanakya Niti
1214. "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave."
~ George R. R. Martin
1215. "When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to
their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewhere, no man will
ever bend the knee to you."
~ Tywin Lannister
1216. "No man is free. Only children and fools think elsewhere."
~ Tywin Lannister
1217. "I spent my whole life trying not to be careless, women and children can afford to be
careless, but not men."
~ Done Corleone (The Godfather)
1218. "Maybe little kids have it right when they worship the garbage man, the postman, the
guy who drives the semi and cranes, instead of admiring the cesspool of Hollywood
that we adults seem to."
~ Reddit Shower Thoughts
1219. "You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally, 20
seconds of just embarassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come
of it."
~ Benjamin Mee
1220. "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes
an emergency."
~ Aristole Onassis
1221. "If a system is corrupt, then the people who adhere to the system and are incentivized
by that system are not criminals. They are victims, and the system itself must be
tried."
~ Dave Chappelle
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1222. "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't
part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
~ Hermann Hesse, Demian
1223. "In the last moments of his life, he turned his fading 'flame of life' into a huge fire that
enveloped the world. I've never laughed more than on that day..!! I've never cried
more than on that day... I've never drank more either..!! He was our captain... and he
was a magnificient man..!!”
~ Silver Rayleigh talking about Gol D Roger's Death (One Piece)
1224. “There is nothing more ridiculous than being born in this world to be alone.. Someday
you will meet brave friends who will protect you."
~ Jaguar D. Saul (One Piece)
1225. "Inherited will, the swelling of the changing times, and the dreams of people. These
are things that cannot be stopped. As long as people seek the answer to freedom, these
will never cease to be!”
~ One Piece, second intro and words heard in Loguetown when Monkey D. Dragon
appears
1226. "I'll do whatever you cannot do. And you do whatever I cannot do!!!”
~ Part of Sanji's speech to Usopp (One Piece)
1227. “Those times when you get up early and you work hard. Those times you stay up late
and you work hard. Those times when you don’t feel like working. You’re too tired.
You don’t want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream.”
~ Kobe Bryant
1228. "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

~ Unknown
1229. "Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don’t strive
to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt."
~ Unknown
1230. “But there was no need to be ashamed of tears.. for tears bore witness that a man had
the greatest courage, the courage to suffer.”
~ Viktor E. Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning”
1231. “The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
~ Tony Robbins
1232. “Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes,
but few have the gift of penetration.”
~ Unknown
1233. "Let me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the
world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."
~ Tyrion Lannister
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1234. "Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few
can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."
~ Unknown
1235. "Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power."
~ Unknown
1236. "The illusion of freedom will continue for as long as it's profitable to continue the
illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will
take down the scenery, move the tables and chairs out of the way, then they will pull
back the curtains and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
~ Frank Zappa
1237. "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is
nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order
that the people may require a leader."
~ Plato
1238. "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be
questioned.”
~ Richard Feynman
1239. “I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It
opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”
~ Rumi
1240. "Hurting someone is like knocking in a nail. You can pull it back out but it will
always leave a hole."
~ Unknown
1241. "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
~ May Sarton
1242. "Don't confuse friendliness with honesty, youth with innocence and beauty with
decency."
~ Unknown
1243. "Suffer the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret."
~ Jim Rohn
1244. "As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness
surrounding it."
~ A. Einstein
1245. "A wet man does not fear the rain."
~ Unknown
1246. "If it's stupid, but it works, it isn't stupid."
~ Unknown
1247. “Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might
hear you and decide to pay a visit.”
~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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1248. "First a boy wants to catch as many fish as possible. Later in life, that young man will
want to catch the biggest fish on the river. When he becomes a man, he just wants to
go fishing."
~ Unknown
1249. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
~ Unknown
1250. "Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it
can never be used to hurt you."
~ Tyrion Lannister
1251. "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
~ Voltaire
1252. "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."
~ Unknown
1253. “When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring
about no end of trouble chasing it.”
~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
1254. “The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks
in a storm.”
~ Confucius
1255. "That which submits rules. The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day
it is many willows - a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose."
~ Dune (Frank Herbert)
1256. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
~ Unknown
1257. "I reserve my trust for those who take action, General Skywalker."
"Then let me remind you that we rescued you back there, and I reserve my trust for
those who understand gratitude, Captain Tarkin."
~ Skywalker to Tarkin (Clone Wars, S3 E18 - The Citadel)
1258. "Let me point out to you that freedom is not something that anybody can be given;
freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be."
~ James Baldwin
1259. "Creativity is heavily policed by logically thinking people. Test weird things instead.”
~ Rory Sutherland, VP, Ogilvy UK
1260. “Optimism is true moral courage."

~ Ernest Shakleton
1261. "There’s 3 different choices your brain makes when you look at a pane of glass.
Through it, at it, and the reflection."
~ Reddit Shower Thoughts
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1262. "Least said, soonest mended."
~ The Last Council, Malcador the Sigillite
1263. "When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a
chance to blossom."
~ John Gray
1264. "I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
~ Roy Croft
1265. "No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because
civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand -
demand change."
~ Joe Biden
1266. “In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted
out of intelligent self-interest.”
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
1267. "Marriage is as old as humanity itself. Before there were nations, before there were
governments, before there was civil society, there was the family, consisting of a man
and a woman and their children."
~ Marriage is the Foundation of Social Order
(A speech by Don Feder to the World Congress of Families Regional Conference in
Antigua, June 29-30, 2017)
1268. “Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use
of others in the service of self-interest.”
~ Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
1269. “Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other
people's interests”
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
1270. “Nobody does anything for the good of others; but as he pursues his own interests, he
is brought to work unwittingly for the benefit of the many.”
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
1271. “There is no human relationship that is not based on self-interest.”

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
1272. “Show me a man who has no interest in his own good, and I'll show you a man who is
not in touch with his own humanity."
~ R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With
Commentaries
1273. "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

~ Robert A. Heinlein
1274. "Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees."
~ Tim Ferriss
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1275. “A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being
who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw
away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost
any 'how'.”
- Viktor E Frankl
1276. "It is never too late to be what you might have been."
~ George Eliot
1277. "One personality continues to love the abuser and seek their approval. The other
personality contains all the rage and anger of the abused and in many ways becomes a
mirror of the abuser, seeking to inflict its pain on others."
~ Note found in Artaud Theather, Silent Hill - Origins
1278. "We live in a maze of many worlds and in that maze we all shall stay, lost, sometimes
hearing one another's shouts, never having enough time to know each other."
~ Battle Brothers, Barbarian Event
1279. "I define a free society as one in which there is no social coercion compelling the
individual to work."
~ Tony Gibson
1280. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
~ Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird
1281. “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if they had all other worldly
things.”
~ Aristotle
1282. "I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality
through not dying. I don’t want to live in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live
in my apartment."
~ Woody Allen
1283. "The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of
death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink
from being fully alive."
~ Ernest Becker
1284. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine
how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ”
~ Carl Sandburg
1285. "If the eyes are the windows of the soul.. then the hands are windows into the heart."
~ Don Diego Garcia
1286. "A man chooses, a slave obeys."
~ Andrew Ryan
1287. "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
~ Steve Wozniak
1288. "Its a luxury to pursue what makes you happy. It's a moral obligation to pursue what
you find meaningful."
~ Jordan Peterson
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1289. "This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost
everything outside of of yourself?"
~ Orison Swett
1290. "We are not held back by the love we did not receive in the past; but by the love we
do not extend in the present."
~ Marianne Williamson, Writer and Activist
Chapter 2, Models by Mark Manson
1291. "A man's gift will make room for him & bring him before great men."
~ King Solomon (Proverb 18 : 16)
1292. "Death scares us. And because it scares us, we avoid thinking about it, talking about it,
sometimes even acknowledging it, even when its happening to someone close to us.
Yet in a bizzare, backwards way, death is the light by which the shadow of all life's
meaning is measured. Without death, everything would feel inconsequential, all
experience arbitary, all metrics and values suddenly zero."
~ The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
1293. “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is
made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying
truth.”
~ Umberto Eco
1294. "Trust is like a china plate. If you break it once, with some care and attention you can
put it back together again. But if you break it again, it splits into even more pieces and
it takes far longer to piece together again. If you break it more and more times,
eventually it shatters to the point where it’s impossible to restore. There are too many
broken pieces, and too much dust."
~ The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Mark Manson
1295. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of
the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in
lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The
world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.”
~ Ayn Rand
1296. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be
and he will become as he can and should be.”
~ Stephen R. Covey
1297. "The idiotic man is limited most by morality, the intelligent man, by rationalism, and
the woman, neither."
~ illimitablemen
1298. "... for beyond a certain level of proficiency, one falls victim to the law of diminishing
returns.”
~ illimitablemen
1299. "3 ways to handle an obstacle on the battlefield: Go over it, Go around it, Go through
it. Not one of those tells you to turn around and go back."
~ Unknown
1300. “Changing your mind is okay. It shows wisdom and maturity. Never wavering from a
belief no matter what is a mistake. What matters is trying to be as closely aligned with
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truth and reality as you can be at all times. And that requires many navigational
adjustments over a lifetime.”
~ Guy P. Harrison
1301. “Instead of digging for gold, sell shovels. Instead of taking a class, offer a class.
Instead of borrowing money, lend it. Instead of taking a job, hire for jobs. Break free
from consumption, switch sides, and reorient to the world as producer.”
~ M.J. DeMarco
1302. “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
1303. “Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets,
nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah,
but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
~ Heraclitus
1304. "You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which
will lead them to think differently."
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
1305. "In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the
problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete."
1306. "I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true."
1307. "Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need
for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first
place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems
seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always
because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be
that one person."
1308. "If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are
going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to
do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will
spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to
have done."
1309. "The sheep don’t appreciate the sheepdogs until the wolves are biting."
~ Bill (Unknown
1310. “The tongue is the sword of a woman and she never lets it become rusty.”
~ Chinese Proverb
1311. "To say, 'nothing is true' is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and
that we must be the shepherds of our own civilization. To say, 'everything is
permitted,' is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must
live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic..."
~ Ezio Auditore Da Firenze? (Assassin's Creed: Revelations)
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1312. “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like
running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for
modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. ”
~ Rumi
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" Well done.' He says quietly."

"That was his infraction?‟ asks Gage.

85. "Believing everyone is dangerous. Believing nobody is very dangerous.."

In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains,

~ Julius Robert Oppenheimer

1165. Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising

1180. "Political correctness is Fascism pretending to be manners."

1209. "There is only thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."

1228. "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

1260. “Optimism is true moral courage."

1271. “There is no human relationship that is not based on self-interest.”

1273. "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

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