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#1

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

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#2

“If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you.”
― Lao Tzu

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#3

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: trust

1028 likes

#4

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

4574 likes

#5

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

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#6

“Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.”
― Horatio Nelson

tags: strategy

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#7

“One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.”
― Sun Tzu

tags: fight, sun-tzu, war

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#8

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

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#9

“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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#10

“Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: chapter-6, roger-ames

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#11

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
― Sun Tzu

tags: philosophy, thought-provoking, war

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#12

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: deception, life, war

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#13

“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

tags: strategy

1249 likes

#14

“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

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#15

“from one thing, know ten thousand things”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi

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#16

“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

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#17

“You should not have any special fondness for a particular weapon, or anything else, for that matter. Too much is the same as not enough. Without imitating anyone else, you should have as much weaponry as suits you.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

tags: anything-else, weapons

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#18

“Do not regret what you have done”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

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#19

“If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

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#20

“When in a fight to the death, one wants to employ all one's weapons to the utmost. I must say that to die with one's sword still sheathed is most regrettable.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

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#21

“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: armies, asia, conquest, england, europe, great-britain, history, india, strategies, uk, war, weapons

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#22

“I'd paralyze anyone who wanted to hurt me.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: hurt, paralyze, strategy

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#23

“Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.”
― Andrew Vachss, False Allegations

tags: strategy, war

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#24

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”
― William T. Sherman

tags: comradeship, friendship, loyalty

124 likes

#25

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

7192 likes

#26

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#27

“Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories

tags: despair, suicide

1197 likes

#28

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

1839 likes

#29

“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: bombs, death, depression, fun, greed, suicide

588 likes

#30

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

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