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Ulysses S. Grant
“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”
Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau
“Cet homme est dangereux, il croit tout ce qu'il dit.”
Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti De Mirabeau

Slavoj Žižek
“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
Slavoj Žižek

Otto von Bismarck
“We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”
Otto von Bismarck

Hannah Arendt
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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