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    Jacques Derrida
    “No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.”
    Jacques Derrida

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    Sun Tzu
    “Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #3
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #4
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #5
    Salvador Dalí
    “The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”
    Salvador Dali

  • #6
    Salvador Dalí
    “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #7
    Salvador Dalí
    “Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #8
    Salvador Dalí
    “It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #9
    Salvador Dalí
    “The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
    salvador dali

  • #10
    Salvador Dalí
    “Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #11
    Salvador Dalí
    “What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #12
    Salvador Dalí
    “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #13
    Salvador Dalí
    “Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”
    Salvador Dalí

  • #14
    Salvador Dalí
    “An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.”
    Salvador Dali, The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali

  • #15
    Salvador Dalí
    “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #16
    Salvador Dalí
    “I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #17
    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #18
    Salvador Dalí
    “The difference between false memories and true ones is the
    same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
    most real, the most brilliant.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #19
    Salvador Dalí
    “The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #20
    Salvador Dalí
    “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #21
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
    Neil DeGrasse Tyson

  • #22
    Carl Sagan
    “The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #23
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    Daniel J. Boorstin

  • #24
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #25
    Emmett F. Fields
    “Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.”
    Emmett F. Fields

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #27
    Aldous Huxley
    “Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #28
    Galileo Galilei
    “Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.”
    Galileo

  • #29
    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    Bruce Lee

  • #30
    Bruce Lee
    “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

    Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
    Bruce Lee



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