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One last word to all you nascent writers out there. Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. Write with balls, write with eggs. Sure, it’s a harder journey but take it from me, it’s well worth it.
Note to self.
“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
“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
“But the chief lesson of history is that the end never justifies the means; and if the means is terror, then the end is terror.”
― The Life and Death of Trotsky
― The Life and Death of Trotsky
“Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Then don’t do that.”
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
― The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
“You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing.”
― The Warrior Prophet
― The Warrior Prophet
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