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#1

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

tags: business, strategy

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#2

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

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#3

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: art-of-war, sun-tzu

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#5

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: colors, creativity, diversity, idic, innovation, inspirational, invention, music, problem-solving

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#6

“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: art-of-war, intimidation, peace, psychology, strategy, victory, war

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#7

“The wise warrior avoids the battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: inspirational

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#8

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
― Aristotle

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#9

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

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#10

“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

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#11

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

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#12

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#13

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#14

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#15

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

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#16

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#17

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: change, mind, nietzsche

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#18

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#19

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory

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#20

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

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#21

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

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#22

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

tags: suicide

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#23

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

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#24

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#25

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth

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#26

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity

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#27

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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#28

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#29

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art

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#30

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: self-exploration

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