favourite quotes

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Hey Skeleton, do you know the first rule of gambling?
It's Get your opponent to sit at the table

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Dont cry because its over, smile because it happened

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For as long as men live without a common power to keep them all in awe
they are in a condition known as 'war'
and it is a war of every man against every man

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Latin is the best thing that ever happened to humanity. It leaves you zero room for nonsense. You don’t have to be a genius. But it requires laser-sharp concentration and total maturity. If you don’t know what time of day it is, or what your name is, or where you are, don’t try Latin because it will smear you on the wall like an oil spot

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水漲船高
A rising tide lifts all boats

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Men cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore

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In short, for a conversation to go smoothly you need two things: to introduce new topics and to expand on existing topics

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Geopolitics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable

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Price is what you pay but value is what you get

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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen

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Knowledge that isnt shared isnt knowledge

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Feature creep is like buying a new set of christmas decorations for your tree every year making it fuller and fuller, and taking up all the branch space and completely overwhelming anyone who looks at it and not realizing that the tree itself is starting to break down and decay

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An honest person will never commit criminal acts but a criminal will readily engage in legal acts.

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You should go out and pursue the things that you enjoy so you can figure yourself out. The problem is that during high school other kids can be harsh and judgmental and make you feel like the hobbies and activities you enjoy make you lame and uncool.

Fortunately this completely changes when you're adult because people are lonely and keep their thoughts to themselves

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Of what use is a philosopher who doesnt hurt anyones feelings?

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When you throw away standards you automatically get the worst product

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Stop fighting for something that you've already lost

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The pursuit of positive experience is itself a negative experience.

The acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.

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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,
Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn

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Hard work buys you a ticket to the dance. But doesn't guarantee you the top spot

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If the appropriate reward is given, you'll find the will to do anything

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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt

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A ship cannot cross the sea without a helmsman, nor can one defeat an enemy without tactics and strategy

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it

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Where there are differences, humanity will find them, and these differences are so fundamentally rooted in you as others beliefs are in others. There can be no resolution without conflict.
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