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“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: leadership

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“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

tags: authority, democracy, violence

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“If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: arguments, credentials, degrees, job-titles, persuasion

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“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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“The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself—ultimate cost for perfect value.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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