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“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.”
― Ennius

“Praise by name, criticize by category”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

“We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.”
― Charles T. Munger

“Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
― Voltaire

“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”
― Andrew Jackson

“Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.”
― Francis Picabia

“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

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”
― Gustave Le Bon, سيكولوجية الجماهير

“If you go ahead, if you keep running, wherever you run you will meet danger and evil, for it drives you, it chooses the way you go. You must choose. You must seek what seeks you. You must hunt the
hunter...A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea