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    Carl von Clausewitz
    “The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”
    ― Carl von Clausewitz, On War
    tags: pacifism, peace, war
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    Carl von Clausewitz
    “There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”
    ― Carl Von Clausewitz
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    Norbert Wiener
    “We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns
    that perpetuate themselves.”
    ― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
    tags: architecture, art, cybernetics, mapmaking, mental-map, mind-map, mind-mapping, mindset, norbert-wiener, patterns, perpetuate, shape, space, stuff-that-abides, time, we-are-not
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    Norbert Wiener
    “The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.”
    ― Norbert Wiener
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    Claude Bernard
    “It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
    ― Claude Bernard
    tags: education
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    Claude Bernard
    “The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.”
    ― Claude Bernard
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    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: thoughtful
    767 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle
    1186 likes

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    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    15512 likes

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    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    Socrates
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: philosophy
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    Socrates
    “Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: gossip
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    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
    1600 likes

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    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: marriage
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    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed
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    Socrates
    “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    ― Socrates
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    Socrates
    “Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: change, self-determination, self-development
    696 likes

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    William James
    “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
    ― William James
    tags: action, happiness, motivational, work
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    William James
    “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
    ― William James
    tags: wisdom
    964 likes

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    William James
    “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
    ― William James
    tags: attributed, honesty, integrity, philosophy, wisdom
    713 likes

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    William James
    “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
    ― William James
    tags: actions, attributed, change
    598 likes

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    William James
    “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
    ― William James
    tags: inspirational
    577 likes

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    William James
    “To change one’s life:
    1. Start immediately.
    2. Do it flamboyantly.
    3. No exceptions.”
    ― William James
    tags: change
    458 likes

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    William James
    “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
    ― William James
    436 likes



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