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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
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    Adam Smith
    “The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”
    ― Adam Smith, The Money Game
    tags: know-thyself
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    Christopher Moore
    “If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
    ― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
    tags: humor, insanity, sanity
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    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
    tags: qotd
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  • #5
    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    “One cannot restore anything from the ashes without building a solid foundation.”
    ― Saveros Pou
    tags: saveros-pou
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    “One even speaks of ‘‘globalization’’ of it, in every field of human activities, where ‘‘fashion’’ or entertainment have very little to do”
    ― Saveros Pou
    tags: globalization, saveros-pou
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    Max Weber
    “No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.”
    ― Max Weber, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
    tags: max-weber, sociologist
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Zhuge Liang
    “Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”
    ― Zhuge Liang
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    “Rámakerti especially classical Rámakerti that is the beating heart of the country—remained an entertaining, if not exotic subject of international and social gatherings.”
    ― Saveros Pou
    tags: khmer-ramayana, reamker, rámakerti, saveros-pou
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    Max Weber
    “In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.”
    ― Max Weber, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
    tags: democracy, leader, max-weber
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    Robert K. Merton
    “Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.”
    ― Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure
    tags: caesar, general-rule, max-weber, specific-case, theoretical-sociologists, theoretical-sociology, understanding
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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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    Tacitus
    “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
    ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
    tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: attributed-no-source, books
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: emnity, understanding-others
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: appearances, character, simile, substance
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: advice, future, life, self-determination
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: on-writing
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    Jeffrey D. Sachs
    “History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
    ― Jeffrey Sachs
    tags: class, condition, human, maldistribution, poor, poverty, rich, wealth
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: language, perception, power-of-words
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
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    Nicole Krauss
    “Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: beauty
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
    242 likes



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