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"Life is for the dead."
— Orlando Rivero

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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
— Confucius

tags: wisdom
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: wisdom
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"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

tags: strategy
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself,
you will succumb in every battle"
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War, Special Edition)

tags: strategy
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"Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across."
— Sun Tzu

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"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you
move, fall like a thunderbolt."
— Sun Tzu

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"No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his
own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay
where you are.
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded
by content.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again
into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
— Sun Tzu

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"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the
opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
— Sun Tzu

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"All warfare is based on deception."
— Sun Tzu

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"If quick, I survive.
If not quick, I am lost.
This is "death.""
— Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

tags: spy
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"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
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— Sun Tzu

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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: happiness
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"All thinking men are atheists."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

tags: atheism, inspirational
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"I drink to make other people more interesting."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
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"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

tags: mortality
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"Never confuse movement with action."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: action
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: death, life
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"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
— Ernest Hemingway

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"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: journey, travel
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"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: war
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"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
— Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war
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"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."
— Herbert Hoover

tags: age, death, fighting, old, war, youth
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: budget, government, guns, military, politics, poverty, war, weapons
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"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: war
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"Looked into the sky, heavy with smoke and human fat, and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. It is not God that kills the children, not fate the butchers them, nor destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us."
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)

tags: atheism, war
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"You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: horses, leadership, war
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"And when he gets to Heaven,
To Saint Peter he will tell,
"One more Soldier Reporting Sir,
I've served my time in hell.""
— Panzer__Kavalier

tags: religous, war, wwii
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing
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"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours"
— Alan Bennett (The History Boys: The Film)

tags: books, history, reading
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"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

tags: history
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"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa
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"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: history
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"Half of writing history is hiding the truth"
— Joss Whedon

tags: history, lies, truth
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"History is written by the winners"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, religion
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""Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: action, strategy, thinking
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"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: leaders, religious
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"This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.

Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death. "
— Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

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"There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Let Him Sleep...For When He Wakes, He Will Move Mountains."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

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"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him."
— Miyamoto Musashi (The Book of Five Rings)

tags: arts, inspirational, martial, philosophy, strategy
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"The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses."
— John Christopher (When the Tripods Came)

tags: strategy
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