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Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.”
“You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing.”
― The Warrior Prophet
― The Warrior Prophet
“She understood, and it terrified her, for it was a thing too near to love.”
― The Thousandfold Thought
― The Thousandfold Thought
“Beliefs were the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.”
― The Warrior Prophet
― The Warrior Prophet
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
“Ajencis,” he continued, “once wrote that all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men . . .”
― The Warrior Prophet
― The Warrior Prophet
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