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Exposure and consequences
- internet comment
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But perhaps the truest teachers of moral philosophy are the outlaws and thieves
who ... keep faith and rules of justice with one another, but practise these
as rules of convenience without which they cannot hold together, with no
pretense of receiving them as innate laws of nature.
- J.L Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
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Mastering a skill in solitary [sic] is said to be a key aspect of
individuation.
- HN comment [link]
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Ultimately the abandonment of unwholesome thoughts must be its own and only
reward.
- Chinua Achebe, An Image of Africa
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
- Kali Linux tagline
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We were too busy [to be scared]. You must maintain your composure in the
airplane, or you will die. You learn that from your first day flying.
- Al Haynes, United 232 pilot
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Some people are just unable to be convinced. Latin makes you smarter,
Latin makes you understand the world better, Latin opens up your ability
to read and learn about some of the greatest things ever made. If you're
only interested in what's in front of your face, you'll miss the world.
- latintutorial
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If you didn't get angry and mad and frustrated, that means you don't care
about the end result, and are doing something wrong.
- Greg Kroah-Hartman [link]
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My organizational philosophy is do one thing at a time until each thing
is done and never with a sense of urgency. When the thing is done, stop
and think carefully about the next most important thing. Repeat.
- HN comment [link]
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A proof is not the mere putting side by side of logical rules, it is a
global perception: since I had found the concept of empire, I had my
theorem and the faulty lemma was hardly more than a misprint.
- Jean-Yves Girard, The Blind Spot
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Every rotation around the sun my opinion is solidified that we're all
just wingin' it, no matter the age and success can happen whenever.
- HN comment [link]
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This is a typical startup contraction. Remember when the "PC bubble
burst" and dozens of companies went bust, all with similar but slightly
different business plans. It turned out that being able to execute
efficiently was the winning strategy, not features, not fancy graphics,
not custom cases. Just ruthless efficiency.
- HN comment [link]
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None of us are as cruel as all of us.
- Anonymous tagline
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Anarchy is what [we] make of it.
- Constructivism tagline
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When the media deserves criticism, go ahead and criticize. But at some
level, you have to recognize that the media's going to media. They'll
chase shiny objects, try to "both sides" events, and pursue ratings/clicks/profits.
Instead of just complaining, factor that into strategy
- Prof. Grossman tweet [link]
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Anything that can be reached with a ladder does not interest me.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Even more recently, it has often been difficult to get low risk, hassle
free, liquid, positive real returns. From a basic science perspective
this seems to reflect the laws of thermodynamics that tell us that
everything tends to decay without a constant supply of work and energy.
In general, most things require maintenance to keep their worth.
- HN comment [link]
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One way of looking at this might be that for 42 years, I've been making
small, regular deposits in this bank of experience, education and
training. And on January 15, the balance was sufficient so that I
could make a very large withdrawal.
- Sully, Flight 1549 pilot
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I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting
because they're the only ones that count.
- Muhammad Ali
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The race starts at 35 [km].
- Kenyan aphorism about the marathon
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Generalization is helpful when life stops throwing convenient examples at you.
- Math article [link]
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And, as is the case with most children and parents, I imagine, some of
my memories of my father are happy, some not quite so much. But the memories
that remain most vividly in my mind now fall into neither category; they
involve more ordinary events.
- Haruki Murakami [link]
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Anyone who doesn't want to belong to the masses need only cease to go
easy on themselves; let them follow their conscience, which cries out to
them "Be yourself! You are none of those things that you now do, think,
and desire." Every young soul hears this call night and day and trembles,
for when it thinks of its true liberation, it has an inkling of the measure
of happiness for which it is destined from eternity. As long as it is
shackled by the chains of opinion and fear, nothing can help it attain
this happiness. And how bleak and senseless this life can become without
this liberation!
- Friedrich Nietzsche [link]
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Happiness isn't something you wait around for. It's something you create
yourself ... Happiness lies in the forging of a new life shared together ...
Happiness only comes through effort.
- Yasujirō Ozu, Late Spring
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You must remember this: money and fame isn't the purpose. If you are not taking
care of your soul, if you are not looking for inspiration in things outside of
football, you will deteriorate. If I could give you one piece of advice, it is
to be much more curious about the world around you when you are still young.
- Gianluigi Buffon [link]
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“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as
if he already was what he potentially could be, we make him what he should
be.” — Goethe, as quoted by Frankl
- quote from HN comment
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Nothing made [Feynman] angrier than making something simple sound complicated.
- Danny Hillis [link]
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There is an old truth in aviation that the reasons you get into trouble become
the reasons you don't get out of it.
- Vanity Fair article about Air France 447 [link]
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I don't feel the pressure because it's enjoyable.
- Son Heung-min [link]
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In the land of the quick fix it may seem radical, but to learn anything
significant, to make any lasting change in yourself, you must be willing to
spend most of your time on the plateau, to keep practicing even when it
seems you are getting nowhere.
- George Leonard [link]
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If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down.
- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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The loss of innocence is the price of applause.
- The Magician's Code [link]
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Your arrogance is your downfall, you annoying little shit.
- Some wise person
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I am Ling, accept no substitutes.
- Ling [link]
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There is no more deeply held belief in the financial industry than that
clients don't buy things printed in red.
- Matt Levine, Money Stuff
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All models are wrong but some are useful.
- George Box
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On est maître de la vie des autres quand on ne compte plus pour rien la sienne.
- François Fénelon
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How can a man come to know himself? Never by thinking, but by doing. Try
to do your duty, and you will know at once what you are worth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Meritocracy has its own deep state — with secrets unknown even to those
of us who are part of it.
- Thomas Geoghegan [link]
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It's really motivating to see someone focused on a single task for like 4 hours.
- YT comment
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It won't happen on its own, and its clear that we sometimes make mistakes,
but I'm fundamentally optimistic about our ability to learn from those mistakes.
- 3Blue1Brown
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Although our situation is horrible, intellectually I love the kind of thing
they're doing: using the tools of economics to make sense of an unprecedented
situation ...
People who rely on rote repetition of slogans based on different situations —
like those still worried about disincentives for work — are completely lost now.
In times like these, only the creative survive
- Paul Krugman tweets
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I wanna see that backboard before I die. The only way I'm probably ever gonna
see that backboard is if I build it. So let's do that.
- YT video, "How I made a basketball hoop that always goes in"
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Life's simple. You make choices and you don't look back.
- Han, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift
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Therefore the characteristic feature of tragic heroes is that their actions
are completely rooted in the ethical.
- Medium article about Fear and Trembling
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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' was his response.
'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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State, behavior, and identity
- characteristics of an object
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The threat is stronger than the execution.
- Aron Nimzowitsch
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In the present pandemic moment, there's plenty to learn from standing still.
- NYT article "Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau"
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Don't play the butter notes.
- Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock
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There is a time to play and there's a time to win. What do you do in winning
time? That differentiates between just a regular player and a superstar. To want
to be on the line, to want to take the last shot. You win or lose on me. They've
done it their whole life. If they're a star in winning time as a professional,
they were a star in winning time in 3rd grade. You know, you see guys, 'Hey, I
got the last shot' - 3, 2, 1, they take it. It ain't going in. But there's certain
guys that 3, 2, 1 ... even you think that ball is going in.
- Ahmad Rashad, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
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In order to get in the ring, you have to have a level of arrogance and
determination and agression.
- One Night In Vegas
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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates
and Jesus Christ died.
- Julien Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals
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No fear, no distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
- Fight Club
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Fortune favors the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur
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If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.
- Robert Capa
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This is a surprisingly dark way to view your life's work ... How would I
approach my work differently if focused on growth and engagement, and if
I measured eras not in equity and IPOs but instead in decades? I'd focus
on a small handful of things that build together, with each making the
others more impactful as they compound over time ... I'd focus on pace,
people, prestige, profit and learning.
- [link]
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There goes the sound!
- Miles Davis
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It's our country. It's not theirs. It's not a bunch of used car dealers
from Southern California. In a democracy, you have to be a player.
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Gaman
- Zen Buddhist term
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No, I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
- Zora Neale Hurston [link]
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I once was what you are and what I am you also will be.
- Masaccio, Holy Trinity (memento mori)
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It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
- Nietzsche
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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
- Bob Lee Swagger, Shooter
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What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know
for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
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A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one important thing.
- Archilochus
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That is why he is called a poet. And his responsibility, which is also
his joy and his strength and his life, is to defeat all labels and complicate
all battles by insisting on the human riddle ...
- James Baldwin on Shakespeare
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
- proverb
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But here's my advice to the rest of you: take dead aim on the rich boys. Get
them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember - they can buy anything
but they can't buy backbone.
- Herman Blume, Rushmore [link]
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People by and large become what they think of themselves.
- William James
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If you're not innovating, you're dying.
- Internet article about divorce [link]
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Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible.
- Slogan during French student protests, May 1968
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Consistency of identity is a hallmark of the most successful and valuable brands
in the world.
- Abbott Corporate Identity Policy
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It is basically always the case that the long-term costs of keeping a system
working reliably vastly exceed any inconveniences you encounter while building
it. Mature and productive developers understand this.
- Choose Boring Technology [link]
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Put all your eggs in one basket — and watch that basket.
- Andrew Carnegie
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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
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For Arendt, hope in dark times is no match for action.
- Samantha Rose Hill [link]
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Talk and promises are cheap, action has a cost and can't be faked.
- HN comment about nuclear energy
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When solving a problem, ask yourself if you're only looking at the 'survivors.'
Your solution might not be in what is there, but what is missing.
- [link]
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We don't care about material. We care about checkmate.
- Fabiano Caruana, WCC Game 6 commentary
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Instead the process here is one in which the parts of the western Roman Empire
steadily fragment apart as central control weakens: the empire isn't destroy
from outside, but comes apart from within ... taken apart by actors within the
empire, who are largely committed to the empire, acting to enhance their own
position within a system the end of which they could not imagine.
- [link]
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You cannot exist without partial derivatives.
- Prof. Nikolaev [Math 446, Fall 2019]
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Antifragility is a function of combining a multitude of entities so that each
one of them is non-ergodic but the ensemble is ergodic.
- [link]
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Flawless execution is all about expecting things to go wrong and handling it.
- CTDI poster
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What is strange to us today will be familiar to us tomorrow.
- Mayor Daley, Picasso sculpture (Chicago)
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full
of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of
the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
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These people are in a hurry to go nowhere.
- Ma, while in traffic
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To go left, turn right.
- [link]
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Shuhari
- Japanese martial art concept regarding mastery
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as a general rule of thumb, egregious logistics errors caused by poor planning
cannot be fixed on the fly by the original poor planners
- [link]
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One piece of advice, uh, for everyone before we go in there: This could get a
little ugly. But whatever you do, just tell the truth. No sugarcoating, do not
change a word of it. Noone here is smart enough - including the rocket scientist.
- Jared Cohen, Margin Call
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The chief end I propose to myself in all my labors is to vex the world,
rather than divert it.
- Jonathan Swift
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Talent should be helped, the untalented will make it on their own.
- Lev Ozerov [link]
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Somebody has to be knocking at the door—I figure that is the way Shakespeare thought...
- Orson Welles
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The first thing to understand is that river rules will no longer apply.
- Douglas Adams
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Baseball will find you.
- Jomboy [link]
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It is important to have a plan in order to know what to deviate from.
- Stan
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[Dark matter] may elude us, but at least we tried.
- Veritasium [link]
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I'm asking you to do something well
- Daniel twitter bio @growing_daniel
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Johnny preferred people who laughed at the world rather than whined at it.
- Norman Macrae, about John von Neumann
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The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they
who do not the thing have not the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The President is a product. Don't forget that.
- Peter Campbell, Mad Men
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[We are] opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
- Albert Einstein [link]
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You're an evolutionary masterpiece. It's time to fucking act like it.
- 4chan greentext
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All of us had been trained by Kelly Johnson and believed fanatically
in his insistence that an airplane that looked beautiful would fly the same way.
- Ben Rich, Skunk Works
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world
for ugly mathematics.
- G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
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Immanentize the eschaton!
- Theological term
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[Great singing] is never about perfect notes. Great singing is about
communication - always has been and always will be.
- [link]
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We are not that dumb, and we are not that smart.
- Coca-Cola President Don Keough (on the failure of New Coke)
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I want to say: You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
- Jaron Lanier, You are not a gadget
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You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear
friend! What if there were no one who cared about guessing your riddle,
what pleasure would you then take in it?
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Noli turbare circulos meos!
- Archimedes
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Are you going to lay there and get killed, or get up and do something about it?
- Unidentified lieutenant, Easy Red (Operation Neptune, Omaha beach)
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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
- Zen Kōan
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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
- George S. Patton
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"regular order is not only a process, it is also a state of mind"
- Ron Elving, NPR
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What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arm goes up from the
fact that I raise my arm?
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
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Sometimes, we comedians just start to eat our own tail and our new
jokes refer to our old jokes or a lot of it is stories about being a
comedian ... cannibalizing your own life ... can be dangerous.
- John Mulaney on Hot Ones (1:48 - 2:47)
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Here is every Thing which can lay hold of the Eye, Ear, and Imagination.
Every Thing which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder
how Luther ever broke the spell.
- John Adams
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Ask yourself dumb questions - and answer them!
- Terence Tao
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and
underestimate what will happen in ten.
- Bill Gates
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Good thing I was too stupid to know this.
- Frank Whittle on the invention of the jet engine [link]
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A historian of the modern world has to learn how to sip from a firehose of
evidence, while the historian of the ancient world must learn how to find
water in the desert.
- Bret Devereaux
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One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head,
without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep: "Hammer your
thoughts into unity." For days I could think of nothing else, and for years I tested
all I did by that sentence.
- William Butler Yeats
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Somebody gave me this lithe-looking creature called a Spitfire and said,
"There's a Spitfire. Go and fly it." ... The next thing I knew, it had leapt into
the air. Sort of me hanging onto it, really, and off we went into the wild blue yonder.
- Geoffrey Wellum, World War II RAF pilot
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So the last will be first, and the first will be last.
- Matthew 20:16 (NIV)
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Muchachos, los de afuera son de palo. Que empiece la función.
- Obdulio Varela, before the 1950 World Cup final
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I have always believed I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it,
but in order to produce something new.
- Collucio Salutati
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I am really a coward. I know I am. So, that's why I did foolish things.
I was decorated eight or nine times, trying to prove that I was not a coward.
But after it was all over, I still know that I was a coward. You go ahead and
do a thing, but after it's all over, your knees start shaking.
- John Ford
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Le hasard a toujours été le meilleur de mes assistants.
- Agnès Varda
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Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird.
Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Step High, Stoop Low, Leave Your Dignity Outside.
- The Dill Pickle Club
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There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.
- H.L. Mencken
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Superior pilots use their superior judgement to avoid using their superior skills.
- Reddit comment [link]